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One of the country’s most prominent builders will lose nearly a tenth of its workforce, due to growing concerns about Australia’s construction industry. Key points: Metricon has told its workforce it is “restructuring” More than 200 jobs will be started Concerns continue about Australia’s construction industry Metricon was forced to defend itself against rumors of bankruptcy just a few months ago. The company has now notified its roughly 2,500 workforce that it is restructuring. This move will impact 9 percent of its workforce. It worked for more than 200 jobs. Most of the roles that will be taken are not in the building or construction itself, but in front of homework such as sales and marketing. In a statement, Metricon’s acting chief executive Peter Langfelder said the company was contracted to build 6,000 homes. “We are working to restructure our business front end given the current climate and the need to move forward more efficiently,” he said. Australia’s commercial and resident

A flight attendant turned FIFO worker has explained how she earns $3,200 a week after taxes at an Australian mine, but also exposed the downside. Megan Meeke, a former flight attendant for Virgin, increased her weekly salary by more than 30 percent after taking a simple eight-hour online training course that gave her more registered skills to use on the job site. She warns that it’s far from easy money, describing how she often has to work up to 77 hours a week – not to mention dealing with offensive comments from male colleagues. Scroll down for the video Megan Meeke (pictured) is training for three new tickets to a job as a trading assistant – which sees her salary soar to $3,200 per week – but it’s not without its downsides. Completing the training took Ms Meeke (pictured) just one day, with eight hours of online training Ms Meeke also reveals how brutal the list is – working 77 hours a week ‘You only get a job in the mines because you kneel,’ he told one man. One

The worker who was allegedly fired for failing to include an emoji in a text message to his boss has been released to his former employer, in a somewhat ironic fashion. Kristen Gordon told Daily Mail Australia the only comment she wanted to make about her ordeal, in which she was fired from the Gold Coast cafe where she worked, was the eyeroll emoji. Ms Gordon won the Fair Work Commission case against the Sens Catering group, a business that operates two Gold Coast cafes and one in the city of Brisbane – after she was fired on March 13 this year. FWC heard co-owner Phoebe Wang ordered a manager to fire Ms Gordon, who was a casual supervisor at the Southport cafe, following a dispute over the rosters. A colleague told the hearing that Wang, co-owner of Jerry Chen, became angry over the text messages from Ms Gordon, believing they were ‘unfriendly’ because workers did not use smiley emoji. Ms Gordon (pictured) says her response to her ordeal with her former employer has been ’emoji