Comments on: Fair Work’s Penalty Rates Decision: A Rational Analysis https://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/fair-works-penalty-rates-decision-a-rational-analysis/ Breaking the chains of control Thu, 12 Dec 2019 09:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Deplorable Steve https://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/fair-works-penalty-rates-decision-a-rational-analysis/#comment-262 Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.theunshackled.net/?p=3279#comment-262 ‘…dependent on their family…’

Wouldn’t this be a positive for society? Families actually looking after each other…

]]> By: Philip Lillingston https://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/fair-works-penalty-rates-decision-a-rational-analysis/#comment-230 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 01:32:00 +0000 http://www.theunshackled.net/?p=3279#comment-230 It is an unfortunate reflection of our time that we even
have this incredibly dumb mandatory award system in place in the first place.
The government, due to its omniscience, regulates what the correct wage is for these
people to be paid on Sundays and public holidays etc. It apparently never occurs
to these bureaucrats that there is no honest good these awards can manifest.

If they declare the award above the market price for weekend
/ holiday labour then all they do is deny a job from someone who really needs
it over someone only tempted by the exceedingly high rate. Not only that but
high rates can also close businesses for weekends, or sometimes if the business
depends on weekend traffic, close them for good.

And if, for the sake of the business owner, they
declare quite a low rate then this will have no affect anyway because no, or
not enough, prospective and competent workers will accept the offer.

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