‘A luxury not a lifeline’: call to defend penalty rates
Penalty rates are a “life line ve for Australian workers, and large unions support a pressure to prevent companies from paying less to their employees.
On weekends, the Federal Government has brought a bill to protect the penalty rates for approximately three million prize fees employees working at public holidays and other unusual hours.
This allows businesses to receive penalty rates, food breaks and overtime payments, food breaks and overtime payments for a 25 percent wage increase by the Australian retailers Association in February.
The Fair Labor Commission has not yet officially decided on this idea, but the National Secretary of the Australian Services Association Emeline called the Gaske government’s legislation to pass as quickly as possible.
“We know that the penalty rates and overtime are not luxurious, and there is no life line,” he said on Wednesday.
“Workers compensate for working nights, weekends, public holidays, others while resting with their family and friends or enjoying entertainment.
“For workers who trust the penalty rates, it is absolutely necessary for the meeting of the goals.”
The bill still allows businesses and trade unions to negotiate through their exemptions, because as long as each employee is better than under the award within the scope of this agreement.
“The only thing that employers cannot do is to pay less to workers,” said Ben Maxham, the Industrial and Policy Director of the Australian Unions Council.
A Business Group Coalition, including the Australian Business Council, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Australian Retails Association (AR), opposed the legislation as they said that the Fair Labor Commission has underlined its independence and limited flexibility.
“The basis of this bill is fundamentally flawed,” the room’s workplace relations director Shaun Schmitke said, “The basis of this bill is fundamentally defective.”
“This bill does not realize that the larger community debate continues and that the world in which we work is changing rapidly.”
He also defended the offer and said that it would be valid only for employees such as departments or store managers, and that it contained guards such as closing working hours at 43 a week before the addition of additional payments.
A voluntary participation article will also be included.
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