mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Only a couple days after penalty Rates on Sundays are slashed, the headlines along the lines of 'its Sunday morning in Adelaide and there's no where to shop till 11am'
Yep, we didn't see that coming.
Businesses trying to dictate what we do and when....
Go get rooted.
"Slashed"??, but still cripplingly high for small businesses...
Nobody ever paid me as young doctor in the public service any penalty rates for weekends - flat salary whether you were rostered on 40 or 120 hours a week.
The Industrial Court eventually gave us time and a quarter for anything over 50 hours a week and set a maximum roster of 80 hours per week.
(That applied from 1969.)
I walked out into private practice in 1975, but by 1987 I concluded I could no longer afford the paperwork time to have my own staff and moved into a serviced suite. The increasing administration time was more of an issue than the money to me, but my future wife, running a small business at the time, had to do all the weekends herself to avoid running at a loss.