Well Done Conservatives

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NZ??? ROFL! Do they have a better lifestyle than us or something?

 

The unemployment rate in Cambodia is less than half a percent and they don't have penalty rates.

Would you prefer to live there? LOL

 

As for NZ it's the same as ours. 5.7% Except ours is falling, theirs is rising 


So I can reiterate my original point. The current system is working. More to the point, it's flexible enough. Wage earners get penalty rates, salary earners don't.

 

If you can't afford to employ someone with penalty rates, don't. Employ them on a salary. It's not rocket science... unless of course you can't find anyone to work for next to nothing.

 

As for penalty rates there is ABSOLUTELY no evidence it creates more employment. Profits go into the pockets of greedy bosses.

Indeed. The strange thing about the penalty rate debate is the vast majority of people who want to reduce/abolish them can be broken into two groups...

• Those who don't have them
  
• Those who don't need them
  

As much as the above people like to pretend we're a 24/7 society like Cambodia the reality is we aren't and don't want to be. If we were there would be no weekends. Without weekends your kids would be schooling 7 days a week, banks would be open and the footy would be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays and not Saturdays or Sundays.

 

You certainly wouldn't be having much time off with your kids if your day off is different to theirs. That's why weekends, particularly Sundays are the designated day off and always will be unless we as a society decide to have no life outside of work and taxes like you see in some other third world backwater.


Why not listen to the voters? Removal of penalty rates was overwhelmingly rejected by the electorate in 2007 and has remained that way in every poll I've seen since. Obviously workers got burnt. Well done Conservatives!

 

it's just a scabby way of getting more profits or keeping non viable business running for another 12 months.