greggerypeccary
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Imrah wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 4:18pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 4:12pm: Imrah wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 4:09pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 4:06pm: Imrah wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 4:00pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 3:58pm: Imrah wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 3:56pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 3:53pm: Imrah wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 3:48pm: Imrah wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 3:28pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 3:27pm: Imrah wrote on Jul 1 st, 2018 at 3:24pm: Seems to me a lot of people are not quite sure what the proper definition of a penalty rate is. For some, it seems that just turning up on the day is a penalty to their lifestyle choices. Not sure what you actually mean there. Penalty rates are paid to workers so as to compensate them for working unsocial hours. You just exemplified it splendidly, Greggery. Unsocial hours to whom, exactly? Damned cats! Bad as rats! They'll eat anything that's got some meat on it. A good bit of listerine ought to help that tongue as long as you're up on your tetanus jabs, Greggery. Now let's start with the fulltime roster. Assume a 40hr week because that makes the addups much simpler. Mon-Fri: (8 x 1.0) + (2 x 1.5) + (6 x 2.0) = 23 hours pay for 16 hours work. How do you rate the sixth day? (2 x 1.5) x ( 14 x 2.0) = 31 hours pay for 16 hours work. (correction) The seventh day is easy. Double-time all day. There's the traditional definition of penalty rates. Any other problems here? The traditional definition of penalty rates is ' compensation for working unsocial hours'. Do you support penalty rates? That's your untraditional opinion. Do you like addups too, Greggery? Show me your best arithmetic, like I just did. You're making this an unsocial hour with your algebra. No. It's what penalty rates are. Nothing to do with my opinion. Yes, I thought so. Your opinion is that someone who flits in on the weekends between lectures is worth more than someone who has worked the whole week already. No. Unsocial hours worked are worth more, not the people. Penalty rates are compensation for working unsocial hours. Overtime rates are compensation for working extra hours. EXTRA HOURS !!! I'd give you a blue star for that one if I was your grade 3 teacher, Greggerry. Under what circumstances would you consider someone's extra hours to be unsocial in the context of gainful employment? Weekends, public holidays, and after 6pm. That's when penalty rates are generally paid, as those are generally seen to be unsocial hours. This has nothing to do with my opinion, by the way - it's IR law. IR laws can change with a hot gust of wind. That is what we DON'T have a hostile senate for. You want casuals to get double-time for Sundays, don't you Greggerry? That is what you are campaigning for under the flag of standing up for the poor workers' rights. Double-pay for yuppies moonlighting on the weekends. You think that is fair? How do you feel about legalising armed-robbery? Think of those poor, starving lefties with nothing better than piddley little sawn-off shotguns. Doesn't that make you want to get up and vote, this minute! I think that people being compensated for working unsocial hours is fair, no matter who they are - casuals, part-timers, and full-timers. Moreover, nobody - and I cannot emphasise this enough - absolutely nobody is asking for anything extra. Penalty rates - for working unsocial hours - have been around for many, many decades. All the workers are asking is that their existing entitlements (rate of pay) not be taken away. How is that a bad thing?
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