Despite the minimum hourly wage being 2，300 yen， there are many cases of young Japanese people being illegally employed on farms and finding themselves in poverty in Australia working holiday makers are not easy．
Working holiday is supposed to be easy, but young Japanese people line up at soup kitchens in Australia ■The reality of job hunting that “doesn’t move forward” Ojun (23) came to Australia in August last year using the working holiday system. Ojun: “It’s not so much about whether the employment is part-time, but how many shifts you get in a week. If I can work, I can work more shifts the following week. If you can’t get many positions you can’t make a living, so it’s really competitive.” According to Ojun, there are over 100 applications for each job posting. Ojun: “(The employer) gives off the impression that they can terminate the contract at any time.” ■ “8 hours for 3,000 yen” unscrupulous farms Meanwhile, Kitayama Fuuta (22) came to Australia on a working holiday in October last year. Because I wasn’t good at English, I went to language school and looked for a job, but… Kitayama: “I work eight or nine hours a day and earn 3,000 yen. It’s a dishonest farm, or what we call an illegal farm.” The minimum wage in Australia is about 2,300 yen per hour, but the farm where Kitayama worked was on a commission-based system and paid low wages. Kitayama: “When I found out I could only earn 3,000 yen a day, I had no choice but to laugh. “Illegal employment is quite common, so I feel lucky to have a job.”
However, it takes time to find a job with good conditions, so he endured working at the farm for four months. Kitayama: “My English isn’t perfect either, so I feel like I’m being treated badly. I’ve actually gone out to look for work about 200 times.” As he struggles to find work and his savings slowly dwindle… Kitayama: “My savings now are about even with what I had before I came here. I came back after about a year. I think that if you don’t take action (without giving up), you won’t be able to do your job and you won’t be able to improve your English.” For details, see source TV Asahi 2024/9/5.
>>1 Japan is no good anymore. Japan is finished. It’s all the fault of the mass media and Chinese and Koreans who are inciting the idea that the annual income overseas is amazing. The Japanese who are fooled by them are also stupid.
>>3 Even Japanese convenience stores require a very high level of Japanese for foreigners and don’t hire them easily but they’ll hire Japanese people even if they’re idiots or moron They’re idiots who go abroad when there are jobs in Japan.
In the first place, isn’t it actually illegal to have a commission-based system instead of an hourly wage system? In Japan, it’s like a contract for work instead of an employment contract.
What do you mean “just go” lol I recommend welding If you train in Japan for 10 years and become a top-notch technician, you can use it anywhere in the world Even if you don’t speak the language, you can impress people with your practical skills.
If you go there without being able to speak even everyday conversational English, you will end up as a sad working holiday maker living as a slave or homeless person.
In other countries, they don’t respect the minimum wage. And if you pay after you’re found out, there are no penalties. In Korea, convenience stores pay about 500 yen an hour.
>>44 Everyone in South America is like that. They say they can get rich if they cross Mexico, but when they actually get there, they end up doing low-level work on illegal farms.
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