Individual,

the company i work for is good.

rather than sack the many of us employed around Australia in sport and rec, they gave us cleaning jobs to match our contracted hours.

i am grateful and would rather work, even though our pay will be quite low without our usual weekend penalty rates.

Wouldn't it be great if all penalty rates were one of the things killed by this virus. They did make sense in my youth when our world was a 40 hour week for most. Today our world is a 24/7 world, & no hour should be worth more than any other.

no hasbeen, it would not.

people should and are paid more for working unusual hours.

why are you so angry about what ordinary people get.

angry about what ordinary people get.
Chris Lewis,
I suppose it depends on the definition of ordinary people ! I know extraordinary people who's contributions are never acknowledged & I know ordinary people who get praised as extraordinary for achieving less than ordinary people !
Many high ranking Public Service bureaucrats aren't worthy of a smidgeon of their salaries yet that seems to go unquestioned.
They start off as Tadpoles & end up as bloated Toads just hanging off the taxpayers' apron !

Not the least bit angry about what "ordinary" people get. I would be quite happy to combine penalty rates & ordinary rates, split the difference, & give everyone a higher hourly rate, but equal every day. I have always tried to pay people what they were worth, often considerably more that the award rate. I have always felt that if you want really good people you need to reward them as really good people.

I ran business in the tourist industry. In the Whitsundays for example, you often don't know what day it is, they are all the same. I always felt it was wrong that food service casuals working only weekends were paid about as much as the permanents got for a full 5 days.

In the marine area it was even worse. With the 11 hour days required because of the nature of the work, weekenders with crazy penalty rates earned more than the regulars for a full 5 days. I moved the regulars to include weekends, as they had responsibility for maintenance & the running of the boats, & deserved to be the best paid.

In my opinion in any 24/7 industry all working hours should be equally rewarded.

Don't want to work after hours ? Let someone else do it ! You'd welcome to work after hours for double pay if you can be twice as effective in performance !