A Notice for Australians
I'm not sure how many people have heard of this, but the word needs to be spread around; the Abbott government and big business are trying to get rid of penalty rates.
Which is a horrible thing for every shift worker in the country.
For those that don’t know, penalty rates are basically penalising the company for making employees work weekends and holidays, adding more to the base salary on those times - for some people penalty rates make up to 60 - 70% of their weekly income this is around $100 to $300 per week for some people, meaning that taking them away will completely screw them over.
Even if you don’t work shifts, I guarantee that you know someone that does or did, not to mention that if the government is fine with taking money away from some of the lowest paid employees in Australia then it’s only a matter of time before they come after other workers as well.
This affects everyone in Australia, it’s just big businesses being greedy.
These people are the cleaners, the retail workers, the food industry workers, the ambulance drivers, nurses and disability and aged care workers. These are part of the backbone of our society.
So please don’t ignore this - check out the official website for more details and to find out how to help.
http://www.saveourweekend.org.au/
Another thing, after the ‘save our weekend’ campaign was started by workers the big businesses decided to try and hijack it sneakily, creating a paid ad on google, making their site about abolishing penalty rates first, so make sure you're clicking on ‘.org’ and not ‘.com’. This is just another sign that they’re trying to trick people into getting rid of a necessary thing for workers in Australia.
Signal boost this, or make your own post, just get this out there, let people know.
SAVE OUR WEEKENDS