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WA to get two new public holidays in major shake-up

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/wa-public-holidays-west-aussies-to-get-two-more-days-off-a-year-under-calendar-shake-up-c-19999235
KaChilde @sh.itjust.works - 3mon

“But how will we pay minimum wage employees to work over Easter if we need to pay them penalties?!?!”

Maybe, and hear me out, a ‘Public Holiday’ should allow the public, your employees, to take a holiday? I remember a time when long weekends were actually a holiday for most people. Yeah, you couldn’t go buy milk from Coles, but you planned ahead like an adult. Now if I want to I can do a weekly shop, get my haircut, go to a cafe, shop for a new outfit, see a movie, and go out for dinner. Why do the people who work the lowest pay g jobs deserve to lose their weekends to the rest of us can consume more shit?

I approve of WA aligning its holidays with the eastern states. It is likely to make business easier for companies that operate or trade interstate.

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𝙻𝚘𝚗𝚐𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚃𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚄𝚙 - 3mon

I'd really hoped we for one to be put in the July school holidays.

Oh well can't complain about a extra one in November. The second half of the year up to Christmas was always lacking with just the one.

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