freediver wrote on Jun 10
th, 2026 at 12:03pm:
Quote:Indeed why not if there are enough people willing to pay $30 for bacon and eggs.
There aren't. But there are a lot of people who would take the work for less than $70 an hour, if they were allowed to. The unions won't let them have a job, and are celebrating their unemployment as some great achievement.
Penalty rates when I was at work were -
double time for overtime
time & a half for Saturday
and double time for Sunday & public holidays.
Most penalty rates have been negotiated down much lower than that now.
There were supposed to be other offsets & benefits
for workers getting a lower penalty rate.
Maybe the super aspect & holidays being applicable to permanent part time?
Most in hospitality only being time & half or for all scenarios.
If employers don't want to pay weekend & public holiday penalty rates then do the work yourself.
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