Working for a company where your wages are paid straight into your bank account using the BACS payment system, the money, in theory, is available immediately. Being paid by cheque is different; your cheque, when paid in, will take as long to clear as any other cheque. Jobseaker’s allowance, is paid by Giro cheque, which although treated by your bank as any other cheque, if paid in as a cheque to your account, can otherwise be cashed instantly at a post office.
Jobseaker’s allowance might be organised through the government, but it’s the taxpayers who provide it. So those who sit on their fat arses all day drawing it and with no intention of getting a job, or worse, have a job (casual or other wise) and still draw it, are robbing you and me.
If you have a casual job you’re entitled to be paid at the end of each shift, however you may have an arrangement with your employer to be paid at the end of the week, or even a week in arrears; that’s up to you. Having been involved in all manner and types of payment for services rendered during my life I wouldn’t settle for being paid anything less than weekly for a casual or part time job. Even less would I inform a boss I intended leaving his employ with such a large amount of unpaid wages hanging in the balance; it’s an open invitation to be ripped of. I’m not saying that’s going to happen, but you only need it happen once to appreciate what I’m saying.
