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.
Quote Originally Posted by CHILENO20 View Post
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.
Yeah, these are the same politicians who when VIC teachers argued that while taking industrial action they wouldn't do camps (since we do them out of a sense of doing right by kids - we get no extra pay whatsoever) said in return 'why not? You only work the same hours'. Like when on camps between 4.30pm and 8.30am the teachers could bugger off and not be legally responsible for the welfare of dozens of kids away from home