Electricity Bill Has A Future!

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Couldn't care less about Danny's public holiday. It's harmless enough. There's no such thing as a "whole day off at double pay". You don't get double pay if you don't work. You only get double pay if you work under that given award.



As this thread is about EB I'll remain very concerned because it's his party appointed job to defend worker's rights against a right wing Govt.

 

So far he's been successful for 2 years as evidenced by toppling a Liberal PM but that doesn't mean the fight is over.

 

Quite the opposite. Shorten using the private school vs public school analogy isn't really good enough.

The focus needs to be about putting food on the table and giving up your day off in the process.

 

Workers in general are supportive of penalty rates (every poll I've seen has vast majority support) so it's up to EB to translate this into an election winning argument to keep them in place or at least cause the Govt to back down like they've backed down on many other policies.

 

Defending penalty rates does not require political bravery > http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-07/ly...ry/6833740

Supporters of penalty rates should be encouraged by the fact that their stance is shared by most Australians and that employers have failed to make the economic case for this attack on incomes, writes Tim Lyons.

 

Since the regime change in Canberra, amongst the things that have stayed exactly the same are Coalition ministers supporting calls for cuts to weekend penalty rates, and Sunday rates in particular.

This has been part of a "call and response" game that has been playing out between employer groups and the Coalition over some years now.

The economic case, if you can call it that, for cuts to penalty rates is ridiculously overcooked.