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  1. Tillie

    Tillie Well-Known Member

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    Completely agree. I am already planning how to spend a long weekend and guess what we are certainly not going to the city for any football festivities...
     
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  2. twobobsworth

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    I have no issues with public holidays, though they should be consistent nation wide not state specific.
     
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  3. Harro

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    I'm not too sure many people see Easter as a "Proper" public holiday. Good Friday and Easter Monday are merely 2 more days off work. A very low percentage of the overall population attend any religious ceremonies.
    Another 2 days of non productivity in many people's eyes.
     
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  4. AndrewTDP

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    People do need time off work. I don't think productivity is solely dictated by hours behind a desk.

    And I say that as an employer.
     
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  5. Harro

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    I agree that people do need time off work to rejuvenate. Just not too sure of the relevance of Easter in this day and age.
    And I was an employer for 25+ years!
     
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  6. S.T

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    Hope you pay yourself 2.5 x for a Sunday, that's the only reason I'd work one.
     
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    Welcome to Australia. Where bogans are celebrated, small business owners are bent over, and economic girlie-men rule the waves. And we have the hide to scoff at the greeks.
     
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  9. Bayview

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    That's what weekends and paid annual leave are for, and not everyone in the workforce works behind a desk.
     
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  11. geoffw

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    Yes, and Colombia, where I was living for three months, has 19 days. Three long weekends in June! Many of these are religious- like day of the immaculate conception.

    Canberra has 13 days. NSW 11. That hurt as a Canberra employer being required to open shop for all but three days per year. My problem was more a cash flow one. I'd be happier to pay a uniform higher rate all year round- a week with two or three holidays was a killer. In fact my workplace agreement allowed people to choose that option.
     
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  12. S.T

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    Some of the countries mentioned have multiple religious public holidays. I have a team in Malaysia and it seems they have a picnic holiday every few weeks, usually due to a religious festival, covering multiple religions. Chinese festivals, Muslim festivals and then Christian one's too. Wonder if Australia will ever adopt public holidays for multiple religions in the same way.
     
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  13. S.T

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    Because public holidays are not that important in the scheme of things..
     
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  14. Bayview

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    With our (lack of) productivity rates and cost of labour in a Global economy; I'd say we had better hope not.

    I wonder if we can get an Athiest's Public Holiday?
     
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  15. Norwester

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    Builders, build houses.......tradies work as directed, but are too often blamed for the builders simple inability to plan their work properly........

    And as for the Public holiday........agree that running small business can be a cluster ****, as in when wanting to trade 365 days a year, but whinging like stuck pigs at having to actually pay people to come in........pretty simple.....just don't open. If the loss of one trading day or the cost of one days extra penalties is going to send a business to the wall, then maybe its owner needs to reassess it's viability.

    Besides, it's a replacement holiday for Show Day that got stolen by Jeff Kennet in the nineties, about time it was restored..........:)

    Ciao

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  16. D.T.

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    Entitlement attitude fresh in the air
     
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  17. Norwester

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    Right on Brother...........:p

    In twenty years time they can take it away again........OK....

    Ciao

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    Less people on wages working, you'd think cafe owners would rejoice the extra public holidays, they generally charge an extra fee (surcharge) and are much busier than they usually would be throughout the day.
    Especially when it's a small business running just a few staff, if paying time and a half is going to make you lose money for the day, regardless of the extra traffic then something isn't right.
     
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  19. Bayview

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    That's the point; most businesses will be closed, no turnover and paying staff into the bargain.

    It affects the viability for sure - maybe not in a major way, but it will affect them.

    It's not the owners of the business that will ultimately suffer.

    When productivity takes a dive in a business' turnover and productivity; the first casualty is often staff.

    Personally for me; it is a pain in the arse, but at the end of the day I still have my business, I still make a living, but I am certainly not encouraged to hire more people when the productivity drops.

    Think of businesses who employ hundreds or more folks...

    Folks who have no clue and on the receiving end of the deal would only see it as one day...big deal, so what...right?

    In a climate of 6% unemployment and not dropping; can we - as a Nation - afford it?

    He's something interesting; my son's best friend'S Dad is an accountant at Myer. He was telling me just today about the redundancies planned (not as a result of this new Pub Hol; just overall climate)...approx 10% is likely.
     
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