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Introduction

Employment Relationship is regarded as an arrangement, whereby formal as well as informal regulations are formulated for assuring that entitlements of workers are addressed in effective manner by organizations. The underlying essay is aimed to address the aspect of employment relationship within the context of real world organization, which might have violated the employment relationship regulations in Australia. The main aim is to discuss the ways through which employees can adopt different approaches when their entitlements are being breached. 

The chosen organization is 7-Eleven which has been considered as one of the renowned business for operating retail franchises within Australia. The company is known widely for petrol and convenience retailing and within Australia it has won many awards for its excellence of franchising. Of significance is the franchise of the year award entitled by Franchise Council of Australia’s 2012. Fundamentally, the business is US based and in Australia it operates through licensing, where each franchisee is obliged to comply with workplace culture and policies of 7-Eleven. Fair Work Ombudsman has history of interactions with 7-Eeleven, as company has been continually alleged for underpayment of wages since 2008. Likewise, the company has also been alleged for keeping falsified record to modify the number of hours for workers to show that they are being paid more, than they are actually paid. The company has alleged for over exploiting international student, by making less payments than legal mandate of Australian fair hourly wages, along with denied overtime. The international students in Australia are mainly allowed to work for 20 hours per week, but store forces them to work for extra hours, by making payment for only 20 hours.  

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The employee entitlements under worker’s protection act of states are considerable for assuring that any breach of entitlements can be reported for assuring protection of worker’s rights. In case of 7-Eleven’s underpayment and overexploitation of workers issue, the Fair Work Ombudsmen is of huge importance for assuring that no right of worker is being violated (Bamber et al., 2016). It has been highlighted from exploration of website of fair work that minimum hourly wage of workers in Australia is $18.93 (Fair Work Ombudsman, 2019). However, 7-Eleven is found to pay minimum of $10 to its international worker who has been migrated from less developed country and is working under the entitlements of student visa, which offers some restrictions on workers regarding working. The conduct of the employer can be considered as exploitation of vulnerable workers and thus it is seen as non-compliance with Fair Work Act regulations regarding employee wages and entitlements (Bishop and Cassidy, 2017).