I know one company that has systematically reduced staff to 1 employee under the redundancy package threshold so that should they fold,they can just close their doors.
To me this is a terrible indictment on the state of play for employers in the Country.
Where's the incentive to grow and employ more staff with this sort of thinking required to stay afloat??
The fools in the Gubbmint are all about "create more jobs, support Australia" and all this shoit, but then they turn around and have sex with the Unions and get a few more deals done to win some votes from the workers.
It's gotten to the point where instead of taking a punt and trying to improve and increase, we are contracting so that we don't have to fork out zillions to staff we can't afford to employ anymore.
In my book; "we are going broke, sorry but you have to leave, here's what we owe you for this week's wages and holidays, have a good life".
One of my staff left a coupla months ago (I was greatly relieved when he did because I was about to lay one of them off, and was dreading having to drop the axe).
I rang up the VACC to get a pay out figure for his hoiday pay owing. When he got his pay check, he asked if there was holiday loading included on the holidays.
According to the VACC, there is no loading, and I told him this. He had a whinge, it's unfair and so on.
I felt like cracking the bloke's skull with me wrench; why the hell should you get more money for not even being at work, and then expect more money on top of that again in loading, and then expect it when you are getting paid for holidays which you will never have?
I held my tongue, wished him well in the next venture and off he went.
It's a bloody joke.
Then, everyone whines about why Aussies are paying the highest prices on the planet for groceries and several other key items, then go and buy it all online OS and further shoit on our local markets.
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