“But how will we pay minimum wage employees to work over Easter if we need to pay them penalties?!?!”
Maybe, and hear me out, a ‘Public Holiday’ should allow the public, your employees, to take a holiday?
I remember a time when long weekends were actually a holiday for most people. Yeah, you couldn’t go buy milk from Coles, but you planned ahead like an adult. Now if I want to I can do a weekly shop, get my haircut, go to a cafe, shop for a new outfit, see a movie, and go out for dinner. Why do the people who work the lowest pay g jobs deserve to lose their weekends to the rest of us can consume more shit?
I approve of WA aligning its holidays with the eastern states. It is likely to make business easier for companies that operate or trade interstate.
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KaChilde@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 347d
“But how will we pay minimum wage employees to work over Easter if we need to pay them penalties?!?!”
Maybe, and hear me out, a ‘Public Holiday’ should allow the public, your employees, to take a holiday? I remember a time when long weekends were actually a holiday for most people. Yeah, you couldn’t go buy milk from Coles, but you planned ahead like an adult. Now if I want to I can do a weekly shop, get my haircut, go to a cafe, shop for a new outfit, see a movie, and go out for dinner. Why do the people who work the lowest pay g jobs deserve to lose their weekends to the rest of us can consume more shit?
I approve of WA aligning its holidays with the eastern states. It is likely to make business easier for companies that operate or trade interstate.
Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 347d
I'd really hoped we for one to be put in the July school holidays.
Oh well can't complain about a extra one in November. The second half of the year up to Christmas was always lacking with just the one.