Penalty rates
Communist Pommy Jock Shop Steward and Labor Senator Doug Cameron says;
…..around 4.5 million workers across the country depended on penalty rates to “actually put food on the table, take the family out to get a meal and go for a holiday once a year”.
They do?
I trust they don’t try and take their family out for a meal on the weekend as due to the penalty rates a lot of restaurants and coffee shops can’t afford to open on the weekend.
So not only do the hospitality staff miss out on penalty rates the weekends, they don’t even get wages.
Well done Doug
The evidence starts with a deserted, newly renovated restaurant and bar in a prime tourist location at Circular Quay in Sydney. Following a multi-million-dollar upgrade, the restaurant of this international hotel chain was closed most of Easter and is closed most of every Sunday. The reason is weekend penalty rates. This top priced, international hotel can’t make money on Sundays. Staffing is too expensiveEverything in Australia is 24/7…except the unions and their insistence on penalty rate for weekend work.
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The problem with this push to cut wages is that it is driven by ideology – not productivity. There’s no evidence that penalty rates are buggering the hospitality industry – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/03/12/hunting-for-the-penalty-rates-evidence-proves-a-tricky-task/
As for not being able to get tucker on a public holiday – not my experience – http://1735099.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/win-win.html
My youngest daughter is putting herself through Uni working as a duty manager at one of the ubiquitous coffee franchises in a large Brisbane shopping centre. On Christmas Eve she worked the red-eye shift (6pm – 3am) during all night shopping. She earned every cent she was paid for that. Try telling her she’s not worthy of penalty rates………
And BTW, Doug Cameron is not a Communist Pommy Shop Steward.
He’s a member of the ALP, not the ACP.
And he’s a proud Scot. He hails from Bellshill just outside Glasgow. That’s 150km from the English border.
a. I don’t believe you have a daughter numbers, you lie too often to support your idiocy, so a birth certificate will be required.
b. If she existed, she isn’t worth what she is paid for a Xmas red eye shift – how do we know this, because such businesses all over the country are choosing to close rather than waste their time being open on public holidays, sure she probably worked hard, but she isn’t a brain surgeon, she serves hot beverages FFS.
When we price labour above the point that a business can make a profit employing it, it will no longer be employed. expect robotics to play a big part in sacking unskilled and semi skilled workers like your likely fictional daughter over the next 5 – 10 years.
Nestle is planning on bringing a Robotic Barista to the market this year and there is already a Robot that can make 360 gourmet burgers an hour (to the customers order) and only takes up 24 sq ft, so keep demanding those penalty rates – your semi skilled job is safe…
a. I don’t believe you have a daughter numbers, you lie too often to support your idiocy, so a birth certificate will be required.
Since I’ve been addressing my son as “Imaginary 1” and my daughter as “Imaginary 2”, endless hilarity ensues.
One of them (no names – no pack drill) responded with – “Why do you argue with these dickheads?”.
My response was that I found it amusing…………
I note you left out (in your imaginary talk), that you argue because you get caught lying and don’t have the integrity to ever admit it.
But them, if you actually had adult children, they’d have worked out by now that you are a serial liar so I guess you admitting it to them would be redundant…………
You’re right. I forgot Cameron is a Jock. I was lead astray by the fact that he acts and talks like a Pommy Shop Steward – the scourge of the 60s and 70s. Doing his best to stuff industry!
The problem with this push to cut wages is that it is driven by ideology – not productivity. There’s no evidence that penalty rates are buggering the hospitality industry –
The only thing correct in that statement is the grammar.
Penalty rates in hospitality are hampering employment.
This has been indisputable since the introduction of the Fair Work Act, when half the restaurants in the nation closed for a week over Easter.
Those who claim penalty rates have no impact are “penalty rate deniers”.
Never mind that such statements fly in the face of every rule/law of economics, including supply & demand, and price signals. Only a penalty rate denier would plug their ears & eyes and say otherwise.
One third of restaurant/catering businesses in Australia do not operate on Sundays. This is purely because penalty rates make it too expensive.
The impact elsewhere varies. In static country towns there is little chance of getting a feed on Sunday. Example: Goondiwindi (unless it is harvest season). Sometimes there is one business in the town will serve something, mostly the choice is go hungry, or perhaps a heated pie at the truckstop.
Only a penalty rate denier would claim this dearth of dining options is not due to penalty rates.
This will get worse. The union movement (why does bowel ‘movement’ always spring to mind?) wishes to return Australia to the 1950’s. They should be careful what they wish for.
I think the only reason you comment on here numbers, is because you get no comments on your own blog.
The 1498 comments listed on my stats must be imaginary, just like my kids.
1735099…..if Cav and Anonymous (knocker) weren’t commenting that number would be closer to 14.98 comments…..ha, ha, ha.
WOW!! 1498!! I get more commenting on the pics I put on another blog, but then my pics are far more interesting than your ramblings.
because you get no comments on your own blog
1498 comments is not no comments
Roly caught lying…….
I had to go back 10 blogs by you to find 6 comments, and 3 of them were from you. So on those statistics I would presume that halves your commentary.
No comments means zero comments.
Care to apologize for your lie?
LMAO !!
FMRBBA!!