Joe Hockey thinks that workers need to work at 3am without any penalty rates as compensation to compete with online retail.
What do you think? Tell talk back and write letters to the editors.
The National Retail Association is applying to change retailer workers’ conditions to:
Cut wages by 10%
Scrap all penalty rates on Saturdays and for late night work; and
Reduce penalty rates on Sundays.
If they can cut pay and penalty rates for retail workers, who’s next?
What Joe Hockey, the National Retail Association and a host of other employers in a co-ordinated campaign are seeking would undermine the minimum safety net that protects all workers.
Blaming retail workers for the woes in the retail industry is flawed logic. Employers in the sector are using the challenge of online retailing as an excuse to bring back WorkChoices by stealth.
Show your support for retail workers by writing letters to the editors and calling talk back radio.
Retail workers earn a minimum of $17.03 per hour (less than $34,000 a year) with junior workers earning even less, as little as $7.67 an hour; they do not deserve to have their pay cut by 10 per cent and their penalty rates slashed in some race to the bottom.
We need your help.
Take action and let everyone you know that this attack on over one million retail workers is unjustified.
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