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Every golf club I've ever worked at hosts "Christmas in July" days so the Poms can feel at home with the winter weather (in Melb :eek:) on Xmas Day.

It is not a god-given right to get free work days. They are granted by the Gubbmint after Union pressure and strikes by workers over many years. Some of the benefits are/were needed. Many aren't, but are now an expected right. Unions and workers never stop pushing and never stop putting the...

And your business name is?...... Look, I can't make any more simple for you; businesses have to make a profit. Costs are a profit killer. More free days increases cost ratios. Got it? Add as many public hols as you like. Hell; make it 20 for all I care.....maybe there is a business opportunity...

Another spin doctor. :rolleyes: As a business owner, I get very nice perks through various tax deductions. And, as an employee of the Company I own, I also receive a PAYE wage, which I pay tax on, which I can use the IP scenario to minimise. Double win for me really. As I said before - which...

There are more employees that lose work than bosses when businesses fold. That's right. And everyone loses their job together.

HAHAHA! Nice spin. You should be a Pollie in Opposition. No; I'm happy for anyone to celebrate these holidays - but without pay if they insist on a day off for it. I already do and I don't even believe in it. It's nice for the kids with the presents, though. I've already said how many more jobs...

deduct from that the spending which would not occur from the future folk who have lost their job, and are living off welfare for a bit. And, not everyone goes out and spends up a storm on their public hol days off, but every boss sure cops it up the blurter. And, the loss of GST from all the...

While they have existed for a very long time, they also are from a past climate of business and economic activity before internet trade and technological advances. The world has changed. We are competing for jobs with other countries who can do it cheaper. We never used to have to. Hell, we...

Sorry; shoulda spelled it out better - compensation for ME in my pocket and for giving up half a Saturday :D Not the business profit percentages per se. But you'd be surprised how much extra you'd need to elevate the prices to cover the wage increase, because it is not just the extra wage...

Double shazam! We don't open on Saturday mornings any more. Folk often are surprised when I tell them this after they ask if they can bring the car in for whatever. The reality is that due to the wage cost, it is a financial waste of time, and we stuff up our weekends in the process. If I...

are you a PAYE, or a business owner?

We have services due all the time, so I'll give it a crack for a specific day a few weeks in advance for those who are needing reminders, and see how it goes. I reckon if we do it that way it would work.

It could work, but in our industry there is no way of forming a pattern of quiet or busy days, or even months. It is not uncommon for us to have not a single booking on a given day in the next week, and by the end of today have half the week and that empty day fully booked. The other aspect to...

And the Monday off after Bathurst. Oh; hang on - everyone does that already.

Heard on the news this morning that the Gubbmint is proposing to make the day before the Grand Final a Public Holiday. Sounds great; "good for the economy" and all that, the spokesperson said. Now; I'm wondering how that would be the case? Yes, there will be loads of folk off work out having...