makes me laugh anyway, human interest
even if others dont see the funny side
aall the big head honco navy boffins getting done by the youngsters
treat anyone like that and suffer ..
good for you and your mates fella, bet the navy thhought they could get away with it ..
Sailors sue Navy saying they were 'tricked' into joining with promises of trades
Lead litigant against the navy Clayton Searle
PHOTO: Clayton Searle is suing the Navy for false promises he would end up with a trade. (Suppli
PHOTO: Clayton Searle is suing the Navy for false promises he would end up with a trade. (Supplied image)
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More than 200 sailors, some of them still serving, have joined a class action against the Royal Australian Navy alleging they were tricked into signing up for four years under false promises they would leave with a trade.
Key points:
More than 200 sailors claim they received no training
Say they were strung along with empty promises
Trainee says experience impacted mental health
Instead, they claimed they received no training and little practical experience and were left twiddling their thumbs for months at a time.
In a case filed late last week, 220 of them are suing the Navy for negligence and breach of contract.
Former sailor Clayton Searle was 18 when he signed up. He had just left school and was struggling to find work in his home town of Rockhampton in Queensland.
"One day mum suggested the idea of what about the military and no-one I'd known had joined the Navy," he said.
"I like getting out on the water and I thought it would be a pretty interesting career and it definitely seemed it from the website."
Mr Searle joined up under a program known as MT2010 and was given a contract that said he would receive training leading to a trade certificate IV in engineering.
But at the end of his four years he still had no qualification. He alleges the recruitment process was dishonest and the Navy strung him along with more empty promises.
"At the four-year mark they were offering new courses to act as compensation for where they had gone wrong but it was still three years before we'd receive a lesser qualification than what we were scheduled to have,"
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