44 minutes ago, GC Theme Parks said:

@Theme Park Girl But then again, Sunday penalty rates will be no more after July

@TomiJ

Not sure where you heard or read that, but Sunday penalty rates aren't being culled altogether, but cut/reduced by a certain percentage.

The Retail Award, for example:

"Sunday penalty rates will change from:

~ 200% to 150% for full-time and part-time employees
~ 200% to 175% for casuals.

Public holiday penalty rates will change from:

~ 250% to 225% for full-time and part-time employees
~ 275/250% to 250% for casuals."

All the relevant changes for each affected industry are listed here: http://www.fairwork.gov.au/about-us/news-and-media-releases/website-news/changes-to-penalty-rates-in-some-awards

(sorry TomiJ, couldn't remove the damn tag!) 

Yes that's still not right but given you've said you're done with the argument and the correct info is above I don't see any point pushing the point 

@Theme Park Girl My apologies I didn't say that properly. In any case please don't hate me, I come here in peace and theme park harmony. ( sorry, that's my bad joke) 

It's all good dude, I don't hate you and have no reason to. I'm just being helpful and supplying correct information for the discussion at hand ☺️

All good bro, I was just a little confused.

The irony is that there is plenty of stuff that Village Roadshow do that is worthy of a protest.  Replacing staff with School based trainees, the creation of 'ppt 30' (which is basically casual employment without casual loading), offering pay increases which are the same as CPI but having the negotiation stretch out long enough past the end of an agreement that there is months where CPI isn't being met, and having an agreement that disadvantages new staff but is advantageous to current staff to reduce future wage bills.

 

All this stuff and what the union chooses to do is go after penalty rates decades after they've been negotiated away decades ago, and in a culture where penalty rates are dying out.  The theme parks aren't a heavily unionised workplace, it's maybe 10 or 20% of workers are members.  The result is you get a low quality union with no teeth, and the people who run it are the sort of people who would be sacked for dangerous working practices themselves if it wasn't for union involvement.  For what it's worth the Sea World Resort do pay penalty rates because their union didn't negotiate those conditions away years ago.

 

TLDR:  Village aren't perfect employers by any stretch but the Union is basically the worst.