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Nov 16th, 2017 at 6:01pm
 
     Nov 16 2017
     Financial Review
   

Restaurant industry withdraws case to cut Sunday penalty rates





The restaurant and cafe industry has dropped its bid to cut Sunday penalty rates after failing to provide evidence that the cuts would create jobs.   Smiley

The employer group Restaurant and Catering Industrial was due to be heard in the Fair Work Commission on Thursday over its application to cut rates from 150 per cent to 125 per cent.

But in a last-minute decision, the employer group delivered a statement that it would not proceed.

Restaurants and cafes were one of the few sectors not to achieve cuts to Sunday penalty rates in Fair Work Commission's decision earlier this year, that reduced the rates for retail, fast-food, hotels, pubs and pharmacy industries.

The commission criticised Restaurant and Catering Industrial at the time for claiming the cuts would boost employment because even its own employer witnesses said they had hired no extra staff after the commission cut Sunday rates for the sectors' casuals in 2014.

It gave the industry group a second chance to claim cuts provided it filed "significantly more extensive lay evidence".

Despite repeatedly promising more evidence, it did not file anything six months later. However, it was still insisting the case continue to hearing as recently as two weeks ago.

The hospitality union, United Voice, said the industry group had conceded the current Sunday rates were correct and appropriate and that there would be no need for further review.

National secretary Jo-anne Schofield said the commission's decision to allow Restaurant and Catering Industrial to re-litigate even after its failed case was "always an unjustified move".

"Their last-minute decision to not pursue the application shows that they knew that their case to cut pay had no merit.

"It is a relief for restaurant workers that their Sunday penalty rates are no longer under attack. It was always perverse that a booming restaurant industry was going on the attack against their workers."

A spokesman for Restaurant and Catering Industrial, whose long-serving chief executive John Hart recently resigned, said the group would seek to pursue the cuts in 2018.

Clubs Australia is still pursuing cuts to Sunday rates through an application to replace the clubs award with the hospitality award, which did reduce rates.

However, several registered clubs have filed individual submissions saying they do no support Clubs Australia's case.

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Reply #1 - Nov 16th, 2017 at 6:08pm
 
Looks like there is no evidence the penalty rate cuts, will create any jobs.   Sad
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Reply #2 - Nov 16th, 2017 at 6:25pm
 
whiteknight wrote on Nov 16th, 2017 at 6:08pm:
Looks like there is no evidence the penalty rate cuts, will create any jobs.   Sad


You might be wrong you know.
I remember when public assets were privatized, we were told it would be cheaper,
better etc.
Ah, hang on, you're right!
What's more, even if it's proved to be wrong by subsequent evidence, the ideological won't believe it, and we'll have to go thru the whole debate again. And again. And again. 
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Reply #3 - Nov 16th, 2017 at 7:32pm
 
whiteknight wrote on Nov 16th, 2017 at 6:08pm:
Looks like there is no evidence the penalty rate cuts, will create any jobs.   Sad


There never was.

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Reply #4 - Nov 16th, 2017 at 7:42pm
 
another coalition victory over low income workers.
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Reply #5 - Nov 16th, 2017 at 9:11pm
 
No!   Next question?
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Reply #6 - Nov 17th, 2017 at 10:09am
 
The gloom and doom BlackDay is pumping the long dead anti Australia GetUp! HATE SQUAD penalty rates sob story. What a waste of time and space.
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Reply #7 - Nov 17th, 2017 at 7:10pm
 
juliar wrote on Nov 17th, 2017 at 10:09am:
The gloom and doom BlackDay is pumping the long dead anti Australia GetUp! HATE SQUAD penalty rates sob story. What a waste of time and space.


To the several million voting shift workers and the 3 X that in voting family and friends it is a very serious matter.

Now the industry has admitted that they were lying all along. There are no jobs just bigger profit taken straight out of the pockets of their low paid employees.
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Reply #8 - Nov 17th, 2017 at 10:51pm
 
Dnarever wrote on Nov 17th, 2017 at 7:10pm:
juliar wrote on Nov 17th, 2017 at 10:09am:
The gloom and doom BlackDay is pumping the long dead anti Australia GetUp! HATE SQUAD penalty rates sob story. What a waste of time and space.


To the several million voting shift workers and the 3 X that in voting family and friends it is a very serious matter.

Now the industry has admitted that they were lying all along. There are no jobs just bigger profit taken straight out of the pockets of their low paid employees.


Less votes for coalition, more votes for ALP.
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Reply #9 - Nov 18th, 2017 at 6:14am
 
'Will The Penalty Rate Cuts Create Jobs'

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