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L18_B110 wrote:
ah, so we need these reforms to cure Australia's lazy workforce who have obviously had it too easy for too long and have simply become complacent slackers!
What we need is a good dose of third world hunger for a job! What's missing is the "I need my $2 per day salary just to survive, and send most of my money back to support my starving family...". Yep, nothing quite like it to motivate the work ethic. We need those values instilled in us! Then we can all be thankful for working long hours for less money with less conditions, so we can be competitive in the emerging global job-market! 
And dont those Indian call centres and support lines do such a good job!
I believe you are exagerating it a bit far but the basic principal is the same. Employers should have the right to pay employees what they are worth. Maybe then it will throw a brick into the peoples heads that believe they only need to turn up to work to be payed a wage. They seem to think turning up to work is a holiday, so why not take their annual leave. Pay them what their works worth and that will make them think.
You are right in the fact that nothing is stopping employers from paying employees more now. But I also believe in the future wages will increase as a result.
Think of it like this;
If I employ 5 workers,
weekly I make X amount,
Divide X by 5 and get Y
Pay all employees Y wages,
2 employees do jack all,
Pay these 2 less than Y,
Now I have a little to pay the other 3 workers their value and weekly I am still turning over the same X amount.
The 2 losers see this and decide to work harder,
Now weekly I turn over more than X amount and this extra brings the 2 now non losers wages back up to their work value.
Not saying this will be the case everywhere, But it will increase production, work ethics and wages in the future.
Not much in life comes for free. Although you still have the right to argue that you want everything to remain the same. You might oneday get the opportunity to work as one of these topdollar bigshots whose workers dispise them.
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