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Daily Mail
25-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Commonwealth Bank, Westpac called out over change that 'should be illegal'
A recruitment expert has slammed Commonwealth Bank, claiming it was 'not for Australians' after it listed 132 jobs for people living in India - as a politician exposes a little-known problem with the bank sending jobs offshore. Specialist recruiter and career coach Tammie Ballis took aim at the big four bank for sending roles offshore. 'I've had enough of Australian companies pretending to support our country when they offshore jobs,' she said. Ms Ballis pointed out that the bank had 244 job openings in Australia, while 132 positions were advertised for candidates in India. 'Buckle up, I'm about to rip into the Commonwealth Bank. See this, this is how many jobs they're advertising for at the moment. See anything suss?,' Ms Ballis said. They're looking for 132 jobs in India. That's more than half of the jobs they're looking for in Australia. Ms Ballis why the bank was hiring so many roles in India there, especially given it has no physical presence in the country. She argued the jobs being advertised in India, which included platform engineers and software engineers, could easily be filled by qualified Australians. 'Are you telling me, Australia being the multicultural country that we are that they can't find someone that's living here that is bilingual with those skills?,' Ms Ballis said. 'Come on, not only that, if you have a look down here, this is their acknowledgement to country. Paying respect to our First Nations Australians. You're not for Australians.' The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) employs over 5,600 staff in India, out of a total workforce of 48,900. Most of these employees are based in Bangalore, where CBA India supports the bank's technology, business, and institutional banking operations. There are growing concerns that more jobs may shift to India, as the bank explores a new lease agreement that could enable it to expand its Indian workforce to 10,000 in the future. This follows similar criticism directed at Westpac, after it was revealed the bank had offshored 160 jobs to the Philippines. During Question Time in Parliament, Senator Gerard Rennick of the Liberal National Party of Queensland pressed the Treasury on whether the government was aware of how much money is being sent offshore in wages. A senior Treasury official said they didn't have the answer right away and would get back to him later. 'It's not hard to see why Treasury took my question about the Free Trade Agreements with the Philippines and India on notice,' Senator Rennick said. 'It turns out that the Australian Government charges no taxes on wages paid by Australian companies to foreign workers in other countries who are effectively working remotely, taking Australian jobs. 'Not only are we losing jobs, we are losing the tax that those jobs would have paid while Australian corporations still get a tax deduction despite sending money offshore. 'This then means the remaining Australian workers have to pay higher taxes to make up the shortfall. This is selling Australia out plain and simple.' 'This is selling Australia out plain and simple. Furthermore, for those of you who think that working at home is a good thing be careful what you wish for. 'You might be replaced by a foreign worker.' He also pointed out that some workers are being brought in from other countries. 'For example, I've been told that there are people coming from the Philippines to build the transmission lines between Wagga and South Australia. 'Do we know how much money in remittances is getting sent offshore in terms of wages paid either for outsourcing or people coming onshore? Aussies unleashed about the increasing globalisation of the workforce. One said: 'Govt should make it illegal for big banks, those above a certain threshold/size, to offshore IT and call centre jobs, especially given their huge billion $ profits'. A second added: 'At the end of the day these companies are greedy af and don't care about the average Australian. It's why I will always choose family over work every chance I get bc they wouldn't care if I dropped dead over my desk.' A third said: 'I worked for Telstra and my job went to Philippines where wages were 1/4 of Australian.
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Aussie workers lose work-from-kome perks as employers regain power, expert warns
A recruitment expert has revealed Aussie job seekers have lost their negotiation powers, with work-from-home options now on the chopping block for many companies Specialist recruiter and career coach Tammie Ballis told Daily Mail Australia that employers now hold all the power in the job market. The recruiter said work-from-home options and flexible or hybrid arrangements are becoming 'less and less' in the years after the Covid pandemic. In recent months, businesses such as Amazon, Dell, Tabcorp and Flight Centre have introduced a return-to-office mandates, pushing staff for five days a week in the office. Just last week, National Australia Bank reportedly ordered staff back to the office for three days a week. 'You might think you've got a work-from-home job, but you might not have that next week,' Ms Ballis said. 'Employers can decide to change it, and people shouldn't just trust that the workplace is going to give them what they want. 'As long as they are within the legal rights and within the law, businesses can change their terms and conditions when it comes to your employment. In another major blow to staff, Ms Bayliss said bosses are unlikely to offer extra pay or cover transport costs for those working from the office - leaving employees to pay thousands each year out of their own pockets. 'The employers don't care. They don't care if you prefer to work from home. If you're not going to do the job, someone else will come in and do it for you. Ms Ballis said she did not believe employees would quit over in-office-mandates as it was more difficult than ever to find a job. 'In today's job market, when there are hundreds and thousands of people applying for jobs it becomes an employer's market,' Ms Ballis said. 'Jobs are becoming so hard to find at the moment. Two years ago, I would have said differently, but as of today, 2025 work from home jobs are becoming less and less. 'If those people choose to quit because they're losing their work-from-home days, there will be people who come in that are willing to work in the office.' Ms Ballis said she usually encourages Aussies to negotiate terms and conditions but believes employees have lost their power. 'It's an employer's market, which means there's not enough jobs, so they get to have the pick of the bunch when it comes to the best candidates,' Ms Ballis said. 'If you don't have specialist skills, candidates aren't in a position to dictate to the employer their conditions.' Ms Ballis said pushing Aussies back into the office would negatively impact employees' mental health, especially those juggling commitments like caring for family members or having less time to spend with their children. She said if an employee's working arrangements had changed, they had the choice to find another job that was better suited for their commitments. 'At the end of the day, you can choose not to work there. You can go and work elsewhere to suit your family life,' Ms Ballis said. 'If that's what they want to do, they should go for it. Take that risk. At the end of the day, we're all living our own lives. You do what's best for you.' Research commissioned by recruiter Robert Half found that 39 per cent of employers plan to mandate five days a week in the office for staff in 2025, up from 36 per cent of employers who did so in 2024. 'Employers are back in the driver's seat and dictate office attendance, knowing others are doing the same,' explained Nicole Gorton a Director at Robert Half. 'As workers adjust back to the pre-pandemic way of working and observe similar mandates elsewhere, they are less reluctant to oppose these mandates in their current workplace.' However, a separate survey by people2people found that 58 per cent of employees feel increased office attendance harms their wellbeing, and 26 per cent would consider quitting if required to come in more often. The survey said 37 per cent of job seekers say they'd expect a 5-10 per cent pay rise to return to the office full-time, and a further 32 per cent say even a small bump would be expected.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Work warning over ‘dodgy' resume detail as Aussies caught in blatant lies
Aussie job seekers are being warned against putting fake references on their resumes as they can be 'quickly' found out and "blacklisted or red flagged'. A huge number of Aussie workers have admitted to lying on their resumes, and there can be major consequences if they are caught out. Realistic Careers career coach Tammie Ballis said recruiters could '100 per cent' tell when job seekers had put forward fake reference checks. During one of her recent live Q&A sessions on TikTok, she told job seekers that recruiters used online reference checking systems like Xref and Referoo. She said this allowed recruiters to 'very quickly work out if it was fake'. RELATED Major 'roadblock' to Australia ushering in a four-day work week revealed: 'Always difficult' Cafe owner hits back at customer's wild public holiday surcharge threat: 'Scum of the earth' ATO money moves to maximise 2025 tax return: 'Act now' 'This is what happens with technology and being online. It opens up the door to fraud,' Ballis said. 'So, just taking a reference over the phone or whether it's online as verbatim is very silly and very negligent and naive. You need to be doing follow-ups and be doing background checks.' Ballis told Yahoo Finance she'd seen job seekers fill out their own references, pretending to be their boss. 'You can tell because of the IP address,' she said. 'A lot of the time, you can work out whether it's a home address because you can see there's no industrial area there, and they said they worked on site. How is this person filling out a reference at 3 o'clock in the morning? 'They don't understand that we can verify information. So if someone's declared that they are who they say they are, we go and ring payroll, we do LinkedIn checks, online checks. 'If they can't prove the reference check is the person, a lot of the time they've lied.' A recent survey of 1,003 Aussies by Tapt found 33 per cent of Aussies had lied during the job search process. The most common lie was about why they had left their previous employer, their employment dates and previous duties. About 2.2 per cent admitted to giving fake references. A separate survey of 1,001 Aussies by StandOut Resume found 42 per cent had lied in a job application or interview, with 19 per cent of people lying more than once. The resume advice site claimed it could pay to lie, with job applicants who fudged the truth earning $15,000 more on average than those who told the truth. Ballis said she got questions from job seekers all the time asking if they could 'embellish' their resume. 'You can do whatever you like but if you're going to lie, you have to be prepared to be questioned," she said. "If they can tell that you've lied, you get blacklisted or red-flagged.' Ballis said people needed to be careful if they were trying to be "dodgy" on their reference checks and said it could show poor integrity.
