Adam Bandt introduces Protecting Christmas bill
For many Australians, Christmas Day is a special day that is shared with their family and loved ones. But many others are required to work on Christmas Day, missing out on this special time.
People working on Christmas Day are the people who keep our city and community up and running. They work at our hotels, they serve us at our cafes, bars and restaurants, they help us grab that last minute Christmas gift at our local retail shops and they are our nurses who keep our hospitals open and running.
But instead of ensuring that people working on Christmas Day are paid their public holiday penalty rates as compensation for sacrificing special time with their family and loved ones, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and his Labor government’s Christmas gift to Victorians was to deny them their public holiday penalty rates .
The Greens’ bill will protect people’s public holiday pay rates for Christmas and New Year’s Day in national law, so these special days are protected from future State Government Grinches.
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