Quote Originally Posted by M-bot View Post
Being in the healthcare industry, public holidays are a bit of an irrelevancy. If you're rostered to work, you work. I had a couple of years in a row when I worked XMas eve, XMas day, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Pay's good though. When pollies talk about cutting penalty rates, I want them to start working through the holiday seasons and weekends as a matter of routine first.
Damn straight! Some of those politicians & business experts have no clue at all. I'm sure they would change their tune if THEY had to work them. As a matter of transparancy, I no longer get penalty rates for working public holidays as I'm now a manager where I work. But for the first 14 years of my working career they definitely came in handy.