Penalty rate cut: How much have you just lost?    

ABC News
June 21 2017
Related Story: Labor's penalty rates bill defeated despite Christensen crossing floor


If you are one of almost half a million Australians working in the nation's hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars and shops, you just lost out again.   

Late last night a Labor bid to stop cuts to penalty rates going ahead was defeated, but not before Federal Government backbencher George Christensen crossed the floor to vote with the Opposition.

Now hundreds of thousands of workers, including some of the country's lowest paid, are facing a significant wage cut.



Who loses out?

If you're a full or part-time retail, fast food, restaurant, hospitality or pharmacy worker you will lose out, as will most casual staff.

While penalty rates will still apply, they will be significantly reduced.   
Workers have their say

There has been a mixed response from retail and hospitality workers likely to be affected by penalty rates changes.

For full and part-time workers for example, Sunday hospitality pay rates will be cut from 175 per cent of their standard wage to 150 per cent. Public holiday rates will fall from 250 per cent to 225 per cent.

In retail, Sunday wages will fall from 200 per cent of the standard rate to 150 per cent. On public holidays the penalty rate will fall from 250 per cent to 225 per cent.

If you work night shifts you will also face pay cuts.

For example, the 10 per cent evening work penalty for fast-food workers will apply from 10.00pm to midnight, instead of from 9pm.

The 15 per cent after midnight penalty will apply to hours worked between midnight and 6.00am, instead of 7am.
What about the dollar figures?

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) says nearly half a million people will lose up to $6,000 a year.

The amount you will lose depends on your rate of pay and the number of hours you work on Sundays and public holidays.

For example, a full or part-time junior shop assistant earning $19.44 an hour will lose $77.76 for every eight-hour Sunday shift they work. The same shift on a public holiday will be worth $38.88 less.

A full or part-time hotel manager earning $22.53 an hour will see their pay cut by $90.12 for an eight-hour Sunday shift and by $45.06 on public holidays.

A junior casual fast-food worker earning just $9.73 an hour will lose $19.46 on Sundays and the same amount on public holidays for an eight-hour shift.
When will the cuts take effect?

The public holiday penalty cuts will come into effect at the start of next month.   

The Sunday rate cuts will take effect from the same date, but the Fair Work Commission says it will phase these in over three or four years so workers may not feel the pinch for some time.

living in scarcity is crazy.
you are living in the most abundant of times.

fat steve needs to stop looking at the people who are crushing it in life with green eyes and get some perspective.

you have kick ass technology, great movies, i phones, air conditioning, the best of health care, free education, you dont have to go and fight another tribe, you have clean and hot running water, clean sheets , you are more likely to suffer from obesity then malnutrition. you have amazing aircraft that can fly you across the world.

there have never been luckier people then an australian living in australia in 2017. people drown coming to get what you whine and complain about.

if you want to complain about australia circa 2017, you are out of your fukkking mind. what are you thinking. i feel really sorry for you. you are totally messed up in the head.

Bobby. wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 7:13am:



not at all.
i would be super enthusiastic
extremely helpful to all the guests
a super concierge
i would be the go to man for every problem
i would get the customers to fill in customer feedback
then i would go on holidays and the boss would ring me and say

'dude, you provided so much value, all our customers want you and only you, what can we offer to get you back"

then i would enterprise bargain from a position of power.

if they didnt up the pay commensurate with my effort i would go work at another hotel and i would contact every customer in my extensive database and offer my extraordinary conceirge services at the new place.

i would become so dammed valuable that eventually the board of the hilton group would be flying me around the world first class to run their customer service division.

contrast that with being a butt hurt little pussy of a hotel manager  who stands behind the desk looking sad and who goes home and watches porn in his mummys basement and hates himself

love the way the haves put down the have nots by blaming them for their predicament.

Not everybody wants to tread on people, some simply wish to live and have a good life.

The wealth should be spread a little more evenly.
The factory owner could not make what he makes without the people with the skills.
The hotel owner could not function without those who work for him.
The taxi company owner could not drive all the taxis.

Yet these people think they are better simply because they managed to have money enough to buy a business and employ slaves for next to nothing.

I'm all for entrepreneurship, but there needs to be some focus on employing people at a fair wage.
The result of companies screwing their workers is that when things get tough, the workers don't give a stuff.

I have worked for companies that looked after me, they got 110% from me willingly.
I have also worked for companies that used me mercilessly, I gave them 50% and when they needed me the most, I left them in the lurch for a better company.

They tred to buy me back with a 30% pay rise.
My answer to them was. "Too little, too late"

Screw your workers at your own peril.
They are the ones doing the work, and they control the quality of the service and product you sell.
Think about it.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 8:33am:



lol.

does being all sad produce a good outcome?

you are working as a hotel manager.
you probably have access to unlimited successful business people staying at your hotel.
you can be super helpful, super positive , chat with them as you help take their bags to the room.
when they offer a tip, politley refuse but tell them you are looking to move to a new career path and if they know of any openings you would love the chance to spread your enthusiastic and passionate work ethic in a new enterprise.

you will have a new job at better pay within a month.

seriously, it is YOU that has no idea and you that is peddling scarey stuff.

you cannot change your predicament.
you CAN change yourself
if you dont, if you choose to vibe with being a sad butt hurt complainer, you are not being screwed by that rich businessman who is staying at your hotel. you are screwing yourself .

i ask you this.

what negative consequences can you see for being enthusiastic and helpful and passionate in any job you have ???

please list how this would affect you in a bad way

aquascoot wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 7:52am:


You watch too many movies, dude.

That's not how the real world works.

aquascoot wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 9:19am:


This is what removing penalty rates will accomplish.
People will give only what they think they are worth, pay peanuts, get monkeys.

As for incompetents leading the pack.
When I did psychology, we looked at high achievers vs low achievers.
The outstanding eye opener for me was that high achievers rarely blow their own trumpet.
They honestly believe that they can do better and continually strive to be better, so they never think they are good enough.

Low achievers on the other hand, honestly believe that they are great, the best at their chosen task, they make excuses why they have issues and its always someone else's fault.
They incessantly blow their own trumpet and lick ass all the time.
Their worst trait is that they use high achievers and abuse high achievers, making them feel inferior.

These parasites fall when the high achievers leave them, they cannot cope and are generally found out.

High achievers work hard, work well and are seldom rewarded.
Take away their one opportunity to advance and they will leave for greener pastures.

Again, abuse your workers at your peril.
They will find better work and you will suffer.

aquascoot wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 7:52am:


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The reality is that they would give your little red cap to the next monkey in line and black list you as a trouble maker so you would never work in that industry again.