Sonfogloin, your WWF heritage of total greed shows through here.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/voelte-warns-over-the-top-lng-wages-are-making-investors-nervous/story-e6frg8zx-1226036862786

Perhaps you should inform yourself and read what is going on.
If costs weren't blowing out, Voelte would have no need for concern.

Fact is we now have the highest wages on the planet, when it comes
to oil drilling.

In Australia, unions have more power then anywhere else, due to
union thuggery.

morganzola, you are actually quite incorrect in your acertion that businesses must trade when the centre is open.

Most leases have what is regarded as 'core trading hours' and, after 5ish and Sundays/P/holidays are not core hours.

In fact, to trade on these days/hours attracts additional charges.

Add these charges to penilty rates and the problem is compounded.

Of cause we then here the old 'well just don't open'. Sorry, but if you want to hold your tinny share in today's world, you have to open.

I note that none of you have really addressed my questions.

Perhaps an oversight, hey!

So I will make it simple.

Why do you accept a surcharge mon to fri, yet not allow for one on weekends and P/holidays where they attract the increased costs of doing business?

Any of you care to address this?

Come bloke! surely you jest,more than just me have said your extra charges an every day thing in most of the country.
Me and another have said we willingly pay it.
And support your request.
You said it is illegal in QLD
Another reminded you good accountancy should fix it.
Charge rate that covers your OVER ALL COSTS this hides the extra and makes it legal seems to me to be your way out.
I said, but firmly believe the above is a better solution, you could craft a weekend/holiday price list.
It would work, only if your opposition did it too.
I think you would see one at least not, and try to take a percentage of your custom, do you agree?
Yabby silly stuff and not on subject 22% are in unions, thuggery? then that would be gutlessness on behalf of employers.
And may I inform you and others a union can only go on strike during wage negotiations and ONLY THEN, and only after every thing else has failed thuggery what has this subject got to do with a nonunion industry?
Rechtub you risk taker you, the rewards are good you tell us but focus.
My bet is your problem is in no way related to penalty rates but more on customers doing it hard and buying less meat.
Tell you what, run a special for oil feild workers hear they are making a quid over charge the beggars great job and they want to bepaid for it? what is the world coming to?

*Yabby silly stuff and not on subject 22% are in unions, thuggery? then that would be gutlessness on behalf of employers.*

Not so Belly. It only takes 20 cranedrivers and a mega billion
$ project can come to a stop. As Voelte noted, they don't mind
paying top wages, but IMHO it seems there is more like blackmail going on. Union greed has no limits on these occasions.

But I was in fact responding to Sonofgloin. If he was off topic,
refer to him.

Rehctub, apply a surcharge or pay your workers cash, which is what
is happening elsewhere. But making it mandatory had nobs on it.
You are up against Coles and Woolies here and given that I have
shares in Coles, I am happy if people go there to shop :)

Interestingly Belly and others might too, as they all have super
funds, nearly all of whom own shares in the big two.

>>You are up against Coles and Woolies here and given that I have
shares in Coles, I am happy if people go there to shop :)

Well that statement pretty much sums the whole thing up.

So long as my shares are performing well, little else matters.

I can remember a day, not to far back, when you would go to the locally owned hardware, or buy your goods from the local store that was owned by the parents of kids you went to school with.

I can't believe we as a nation have sat back and watched the whole system implode all in the name of returns on shares.

I invite you all to view a film called 'food inc' and see just where we are headed.

You know we are doomed when it is easier to find out what coles and Wollies 'don't own' rather than what they do own.

Now I know this is a bit off track, but surely the domination from these giants has a lot to do with the demise of small business, considering it is they who pushed for extended trading, which changed the lives of many for the worse.

I can remember a day when ALL shops would shut at noon Saturday and be closed for the four days over Easter.

Perhaps there's a link between the increased dysfunctional families and 7 day industries. I think that's another topic.

*So long as my shares are performing well, little else matters.*

Ah Rectub, I could say the same thing about you and your butcher
shops. Luckily I bought shares rather then more farmland, for
my farm gets subsidised by the shares. If I'd relied on income
from butchers, it would have gone broke.

*I can remember a day, not to far back, when you would go to the locally owned hardware, or buy your goods from the local store that was owned by the parents of kids you went to school with.*

Its till happening, Rehctub. With 1.3 trillion$ worth of superannuation
savings in workers accounts, nearly every worker in Australia would
own a share of Bunnings, a share of Coles and a share of Woolies.

Why should people not shop in businesses where they have a financial
interest?