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Reply #15 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 10:51am
 
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If you want people to work weekends, you pay your penalty rates.     Sad    


Yes if you can't get enough people to work for you on weekends you offer more pay (that's a market) but you don't just pay everyone 50% - $100% more across the board just because it's a weekend, that's inefficient, retards enterprise and adds to unemployment.

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Reply #16 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 10:54am
 
Dnarever wrote on Jun 10th, 2013 at 10:42am:
Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 10th, 2013 at 10:37am:
It's common sense.

Why does everything have to boil down to Liberal or Labor?

I'm no Liberal and I'm no Labor.

But we live in a global economy, we need competitive advantage, we need fluid head count costs.

Penalty rates are outdated. They belong back in the dark days of the 1970s.



Penalty rates are a sensible way of applying an appropriate market rate to hours with intrinsically more value to both the employer and employee.

2pm simply does not have the same market value in dollar terms as 2 am.


Unless you have people lining up to do the work and willing to do it without penalty rates.
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Reply #17 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 10:55am
 
Yes we do need the penalty rates to work those hours.  No penalty rates.  Sorry no can work those hours.     Smiley   
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Reply #18 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 11:00am
 
Swaggie's so opposed to the lowest-paid or the unemployed getting
a fair rate of pay/'benefit' that he just HAS to be an employer.

Can't think of any other reason for it.
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Reply #19 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 11:04am
 
I cant see the unions supporting no penalty rates.  With or without an Abbott government.     Smiley
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Reply #20 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 11:08am
 
Swagman wrote on Jun 10th, 2013 at 10:54am:
Dnarever wrote on Jun 10th, 2013 at 10:42am:
Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 10th, 2013 at 10:37am:
It's common sense.

Why does everything have to boil down to Liberal or Labor?

I'm no Liberal and I'm no Labor.

But we live in a global economy, we need competitive advantage, we need fluid head count costs.

Penalty rates are outdated. They belong back in the dark days of the 1970s.



Penalty rates are a sensible way of applying an appropriate market rate to hours with intrinsically more value to both the employer and employee.

2pm simply does not have the same market value in dollar terms as 2 am.


Unless you have people lining up to do the work and willing to do it without penalty rates.


You won't have people lining up - the belief is that enough people will have no choice and desperate enough to be forced to accept it.
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Reply #21 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 11:11am
 
Kat wrote on Jun 10th, 2013 at 11:00am:
Swaggie's so opposed to the lowest-paid or the unemployed getting
a fair rate of pay/'benefit' that he just HAS to be an employer.

Can't think of any other reason for it.


Nope, I wouldn't be one.  There's too much against being one and that would apply to many, and what does that say?

Employment is (well should be) a market.

If a business makes a lot more money on weekends such as a pub or a club but can't attract enough employees to work during those hours then that business will pay more to attract them.

Common sense.

You tell me why pay 10 people double time when 10 people may be sitting around unemployed when 20 people could be employed?  Sad
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Reply #22 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 11:14am
 
Then we will get the job done Monday to Friday.     Smiley   
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Reply #23 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 11:17am
 
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Then we will get the job done Monday to Friday.     Smiley   


Exactly the mentality that has seen the death of the manufacturing industry in Australia.
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Reply #24 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 12:05pm
 
Swagman wrote on Jun 10th, 2013 at 11:11am:
Kat wrote on Jun 10th, 2013 at 11:00am:
Swaggie's so opposed to the lowest-paid or the unemployed getting
a fair rate of pay/'benefit' that he just HAS to be an employer.

Can't think of any other reason for it.


Nope, I wouldn't be one.  There's too much against being one and that would apply to many, and what does that say?

Employment is (well should be) a market.

If a business makes a lot more money on weekends such as a pub or a club but can't attract enough employees to work during those hours then that business will pay more to attract them.

Common sense.

You tell me why pay 10 people double time when 10 people may be sitting around unemployed when 20 people could be employed?  Sad


You tell me why pay 10 people double time when 10 people may be sitting around unemployed when 20 people could be employed?

Because you only need 10 people, the additional money would go into your pocket - that is the idea driving this. More money in the employers pocket and Less in the employees.
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Reply #25 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 12:21pm
 
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Then we will get the job done Monday to Friday.     Smiley   


And everything closes for the weekend?
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Reply #26 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 12:25pm
 
Well that's up to the employer.     Smiley
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Reply #27 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 12:31pm
 
Dnarever wrote on Jun 10th, 2013 at 12:05pm:
Because you only need 10 people, the additional money would go into your pocket - that is the idea driving this. More money in the employers pocket and Less in the employees


Depends on the business.  In manufacturing working at night or weekends makes effall difference to productivity.  Penalty rates just add to production costs without adding to production items making the industry less competitive.

Eventually the business closes due to losses and nobody has a job and nobody gets penalty rates.  Great outcome hey... Roll Eyes

This is Labor's and Unions' legacy to Australia.  No good throwing money at schools and disability schemes when you have no industries and no jobs.
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Reply #28 - Jun 10th, 2013 at 12:40pm
 
Depends on the business.  In manufacturing working at night or weekends makes effall difference to productivity.  Then we will get the job done Monday to Friday.     Smiley
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