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Sunday penalties and restaurants – not exactly a brave new world
Yesterday, web pages were aflutter with comments by celebrity chef George Calombaris about the high cost of paying staff to work on weekends.
An article in The Power Index reported Calombaris complaining that he’s looking down the barrel of paying his restaurant staff ‘$40 an hour on Sundays ... and it's not like they've had to go to uni for 15 years’.
‘The problem is that wages on public holidays and weekends greatly exceed the opportunity for profit … it’s just not a good business practice to be paying penalty rates. It’s really difficult to stay open and we only do it because of tourism but the reality is it’s uneconomical,’ he said.
‘So our labour laws are something that need to be looked at and we keep talking about it.’ ... read more
Written by Isy Burns on 11-01-2012, No Comments
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