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Daily Discussion Thread: 🐈🎣 🧌 Friday, September 27, 2024 (aussie.zone)

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[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

That sucks. I feel like the public holidays outside of the major religious ones are paid days off for office workers.

A lot needs to be done here around the treatment of casual workers. The 25% loading isn't enough and it has shown not to be an incentive for employers to move people across to part or full time