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Turnbulls Christmas Gift No Worker Wants
Dec 26th, 2015 at 6:38am
 
Penalty rates: Productivity Commission recommends changes to weekend pay for entertainment, hospitality and retail workers   Sad


Updated Tue at 8:04pm
ABC News

The Productivity Commission has recommended changes to weekend penalty rates, calling for Sunday rates to be brought into line with Saturday payments.   Sad
Key points:

    No changes recommended to overtime or night penalty rates or shift loadings
    Commission says penalty rates should continue to be set by the Fair Work Commission
    Government will examine recommendations and any changes will be taken to next election
    Labor opposed to any changes to penalty rates

The recommendations — laid out in the commission's final report into workplace relations released on Monday — would affect workers in the entertainment, hospitality and retail industries, if adopted.   

The commission did not recommend any changes to overtime penalty rates, night penalty rates or shift loadings, nor changes to rates for nurses, teachers or emergency services workers.

"Penalty rates have a legitimate role in compensating employees for working long hours or at asocial times," it stated.

"However, Sunday penalty rates for hospitality, entertainment, retailing, restaurants and cafes are inconsistent across similar work, anachronistic in the context of changing consumer preferences, and frustrate the job aspirations of the unemployed and those who are only available for work on Sunday.

"Rates should be aligned with those on Saturday, creating a weekend rate for each of the relevant industries."

Announcing the report's findings, Employment Minister Michaelia Cash said the Government would examine the recommendations and, if the case for sensible and fair changes to workplace relations were outlined, they would be taken to the next election.

Senator Cash said the commission recommended that penalty rates should continue to be set by the independent Fair Work Commission and the Government has no plan to change the rates itself.

"The only recommendation that the Productivity Commission makes on penalty rates is directed to the independent Fair Work Commission and that is in relation to the weekend penalty rates for the retail and hospitality industry," she said.

"Whether or not the independent Fair Work Commission accepts or rejects this particular recommendation is a matter for the Fair Work Commission."

Senator Cash said any changes would be taken to an election.



"The Government has said that if there is a good case for fair and sensible changes to the workplace relations framework, these will be clearly outlined and they will be taken to the Australian people and we will seek a mandate at the next election," she said.

"That is what we promised and we intend to keep that promise."

The commission said that despite sometimes significant problems, Australia's workplace relations system was not systematically dysfunctional.

"It needs repair, not replacement," it stated.

The Commission made almost 70 recommendations unrelated to penalty rates, including:

    Commissioning a comprehensive review of apprenticeship and traineeship agreements
    The introduction of measures that encourage migrants to report exploitation
    Changes to unfair dismissal laws, including more hurdles to clear before taking it to arbitration

The Commission also recommended the creation of a new organisation to review modern awards and the minimum wage.
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Re: Turnbulls Christmas Gift No Worker Wants
Reply #1 - Dec 26th, 2015 at 6:43am
 
Turnbull's Christmas gift no worker wants: Labor

The Federal Opposition has been vocal in its campaign against any potential changes.
The tide is turning on penalty rates

There is political momentum to tackle the thorny issue of penalty rates and it will test this Turnbull Government, Chris Berg writes.

Labor's workplace spokesman Brendan O'Connor described the report as Prime Minister "Malcolm Turnbull's gift that no worker wants for Christmas".   Sad

Mr O'Connor said called on the Government to reject the recommendation to change penalty rates.

"We want to see the economy grow, but people share in that growth," he said.

"The fact is we do have a weekend where people enjoy themselves, spend time with their families.

"We usually have weddings, christenings, birthdays, sporting events, most often are on weekends, yet of course we have millions of Australians who work on those days providing services and goods to the bulk of Australians.

"They should be rewarded for the deprivation that they have insofar as spending time with their friends, their family, and others."
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Re: Turnbulls Christmas Gift No Worker Wants
Reply #2 - Dec 26th, 2015 at 7:06am
 
I think we need to do what right for the situation in our country  as it is in 2016........ I am all for people being asked for restraint...we have come a long way since Sunday opening was brought it...it is no different now to any other day.....unless you want it to be...

what I would like to see is.. the commission call for the

GRAVY TRAIN to be demolished.....as it too was brought in long before these pollies left with huge handshakes.. it is long over due...for extinction..


the freebee overseas holidays also.. in this day and age of computers...google and skype... get rid of it..

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Re: Turnbulls Christmas Gift No Worker Wants
Reply #3 - Dec 26th, 2015 at 1:21pm
 
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Last I saw Turnbull wasn't the Productivity Commissioner?

Mind you, a new job where there wasn't one before, is actually good news Crook......unless one is a lazy, good for nothing bludger that doesn't want to work I s'pose....  Cheesy
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