An Aussie lady thinks she shed her task after sharing information on the internet concerning being implicated of unlawful outdoor camping while oversleeping a van on her very own driveway.
Belinda, 51, had actually been functioning as a service provider for Queensland’s Department of Housing (Do H) given that early in 2015 when a council employee and law enforcement agent knocked on her van door throughout the very early hours of the early morning someday in March, endangering her with a $806 penalty for oversleeping her van.
Despite discussing she was the proprietor of the Gold Coast residential property metres far from where they were positioned– which was incomplete at the time– authorities advised her to carry on, claiming she was camping unlawfully.
Days after the communication, Belinda’s employment recruiter Randstad called her and purportedly claimed her agreement with the Do H had actually finished due to the video clip she shared online that explained the morning communication with authorities on her driveway.
“I got a message from my consultant who found me the [DoH] job and she said, ‘I need to talk to you’… So I called her immediately. She pretty much said, ‘I’ve got some bad news. The DoH reached out and you’re not allowed to return’,” Belinda informed Yahoo News, remembering the call that took place last month.
“I said, ‘It hasn’t got anything to do with TikTok has it?’. She said, ‘Yes… they work closely with the council and there’s a social media clause’. I had no idea what the social media clause was.
” I was likewise putting on the Do H lanyard in the video clip … which was an issue.”
Aussie now has ‘no income’ after contract abruptly ended
Belinda requested to have everything that was spoken about in the phone call confirmed in writing. However, she is yet to receive this.
She claims she was told by the employment agency that contracts can end at any time, even though her contract wasn’t due to end until June 30. Since she was a contractor, she is now unable to pursue an unfair dismissal claim as she was technically employed by Randstad, not the DoH. While she is still ‘on the books’ with the agency, she is yet to secure work after the driveway incident.
“I’ve obtained no earnings today … I do not intend to get on Centrelink, I’m efficient in working,” she said. “I’m being reprimanded since I virtually educated my area concerning the absurd regulation[about illegal camping] I’m not existing. I really did not make the regulation up.”
In March, the City of Gold Coast council told Yahoo News camping is considered illegal if the individual is situated in “parks, local government roads, and driveways on public land between a private property boundary and the kerb”.
“People who are found camping illegally or sleeping in vehicles on roads or parks are educated about appropriate places to sleep before being asked to move on,” a council spokesperson said.
Employment agency and the Department of Housing respond
When Yahoo News reached out to Randstad, a spokesperson confirmed Belinda was still a casual employee with the organisation but details about the DoH contract can’t be disclosed due to confidentiality reasons.
“As is the nature of casual work, a casual’s assignment length is not guaranteed and our clients may vary the length of an assignment or end the assignment,” the Randstad spokesperson said. “Our employment relationship with her has not changed, and we continue to support Belinda to find her next assignment.”
The issue of confidentiality was echoed by the DoH, with a spokesperson saying “the Department cannot comment on individual cases of employees”.
“However, we can confirm that experiencing homelessness or accessing homelessness services is not grounds for termination of employment contracts,” the spokesperson said.
Both Randstad and the DoH declined to comment on Belinda’s social media activity or any breach of a social media clause.
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