Thread: Proposal to cut wages on Labor Day long weekend!

Simple.
If you don't want to pay penalty rates, don't open the shop.

It wouldn't have anything to do with having Liberal governments in both state and federal.....would it?

I 100% agree with the above statements, but also if you want the convenience of shopping late at night, on weekends and public holidays then as a consumer you should also be prepared to pay more to shop on these days, especially to businesses that have traditionally been closed on these days and may have profit margins based on this.

Not opening on Sundays or long weekends is the last thing big shopping centres want as it doesn't look good if most other shops are open. I suspect there are clauses in all leases which they'll use to bring pressure on retailers for not opening when allowed by regulation.
Shopping centres look busy on Sundays but are they really taking extra money every week from when there was only 6 day trading in WA?
And for those seeing a Lib conspiracy to down the poor old worker, don't forget there's many on the other side of politics who shout one thing and have no qualms at all about screwing their own employees when there's a dollar to be had.
AlanH.

This debate has been raging under many different state and federal governments. It's not a new argument.
Might I suggest, if you want this debate to continue to rage here, remember, keep politics out of it.

Ditto, as far as I know the Qld chamber that proposed this is not party backed, so don't dwell on the past evils just the proposed future ones

Ah, yes, the old tryon. Some business leaders will not be happy until the basic wage is $7.50 an hour, like the USA. Restaurants have been pushing for the removal of long weekend, indeed weekend ,penalty rates for years. Be interesting to see if they would contemplate the removal of the 15 % loading on those days. Bob

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

This debate has been raging under many different state and federal governments. It's not a new argument.
Might I suggest, if you want this debate to continue to rage here, remember, keep politics out of it.

The fundamentals of this is based in politics, especially when they make the legislation and there is one major parties basic philosophy to support business for the owners, and the other major parties basic philosophy to support business for the employees.