Well Done Conservatives

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Yeah - plenty of loose money in the retail industry mate

Here, I'll make it easy for you. The Fairwork commission have ordered employers who underpaid penalty rates to repay the lost money to their workers. So penalty rates is money no matter how many hairs are split.
 
Salary? What salary? Are you erroneously assuming that retail and hospitality workers are somehow going to be better off with lost penalty rates because a more generous salary might be an available substitute????
 
Well for a start, what happens if they are part time? How do you pay a part timer a salary?
You don't. They will always be on wages. So once the penalty rates are less their income will be less.
 
Less income = less money. Exactly what their employers want. Especially the ones that underpay their workers.
 
And you reckon they'll be better off without penalty rates? That's tooth fairy stuff mate.
 
I spent more than a decade as a salary earner in the retail industry.
 
To put it kindly.... the money was farked. I was earning less than a forkie on wages and I was doing 60hr weeks.
 
That WAS the old system... from the 19th century. Fark - and you want me to go back to it?