Why We Ask

You Are Owed Money For Your Work. This Is How We Make Sure You Get It.

Every question here exists because of a rule that puts money in your account or keeps you safe at work. Nothing is asked because it is interesting, and nothing is asked twice.

What You Get, Which Is The Point

The proper rate. A casual is paid twenty-five per cent on top of the ordinary rate, over a floor of $26.44 an hour — and the award for that industry very often sets more than the floor.
Super, on the same day as your pay. Since July it goes in with your wage rather than every three months. One shift earns it the same as a hundred do. At nineteen that money has forty-six years to grow, which is why it is worth more than it looks.
Cover if you are hurt. A business you work a shift for carries workers compensation, and it covers you from your first minute. This is the single biggest reason a shift is worth doing properly rather than quietly.
A record that follows you. Every shift, and what people said about you. It is yours, and it is what turns a first job into a second one.

Why Each One Is Asked

Your tax file number: Without one you are taxed at the top rate, which is nearly half of what you earn. With one you are taxed properly, and most people at most rates get a good deal of it back. It is asked once and it is the difference between being paid and being paid properly.
Your super fund: So the super you are owed has somewhere to land. If you have not got a fund yet, say so and we will walk you through it — it takes about ten minutes and it is yours for life.
Where your pay goes: A payslip needs an account to pay into. That is the whole of it.
Your full name and date of birth: Payroll has to match you to the tax office, and some award rates depend on your age — usually in your favour.
Your right to work here: Asked of everybody, whatever kind of work they do, because it is the law wherever the work is. It is the official check, done with your permission, and it comes back with your visa and its actual conditions. It beats a photograph of a passport, which only proves you own a passport.
Somebody to ring: A first shift is the riskiest one anybody works, because you have never seen the room, the machine or the back stairs. It is asked once and hopefully never used.

If You Only Want Local Work, We Ask Almost Nothing

Mowing a lawn or tutoring somebody’s kid has no payroll behind it, so there is no tax file number to ask for and we do not ask for one. Two details and that is all: your right to work, and somebody to ring.

There is a toggle on your Portrait. Neighbours, businesses, or both — and you can change your mind whenever you like. What we ask you for changes with it.

What Happens To It

Your tax file number and your bank details are sealed the moment you type them. They are not stored as words.
They are shown on no screen. Not to a business browsing, not to us, not in anybody’s admin.
They go to one business, once, for one job, and only when you press the button that sends them.
You see your own as the last three digits, which is enough to recognise and no use to anybody else.
Everywhere it has ever been is written down, and you can read that list whenever you want.

And One Line We Will Never Cross

UNiiVERSE does not employ you and never handles your money. The business or the household who hired you pays you directly, and not one cent of it passes through here. That is why we take no commission — there is nothing to take it from.

It also means the agreement about your work is between you and them rather than us, which is exactly as it should be. If anybody here asks you to work unpaid, for a trial, or for the experience, they have broken the rules of this place and we want to know.