hospitality industry (general) award 2010

A big fat lot of good this new system has been.

I'm employed under a federal award, as a casual, and as of Jan 1 we have forgone our saturday, sunday and public holiday penalty rates, and gained an extra $0.007 an hour. Yes 7/10ths of 1c more an hour. How does that fairly compensate the double time entitlements that Labor has taken away?

So, Julia, why would anyone work on a Saturday and a Sunday now?

No recourse, other than "you can look for a new job if you don't like it".

This will make it a lot harder for liquor and hospitality employers now, especially in light of the next boom in mining here in the west.

Oh, and the company I work for put prices of their products up on 1 January because costs of production and distribution have gone up. So has the groceries and consumables that my family depends on.

It's not a labour (small l and ou intended) party any more, its a socialist experiment gone wrong.

RIP Workchoices imho

Very Tricky
Are you sure your employer didnt push something through in the last days of workchoices?

From the award
Penalty rates
32.1 An employee performing work on the following days will be paid the following percentage of the minimum wage rate in clause 20 for the relevant classification:
Monday to Friday
%
Saturday
%
Sunday
%
Public Holiday
%
Full-time and part-time
100
125
175
250
Casual (inclusive of the 25% casual loading)
125
150
175
275