Plus 120 modern awards.
Very few other countries have awards based systems. France, Ireland.
Australians get 10 stick days a year and tend on average to take 8 or 9. (Depends on what newspaper or web site you read)
Australia and NZ are the only countries with long service leave. (In case you forget you get 6 weeks holiday after 10years with the same employer)
Having worked out which of the 120 so called "Modern Awards" actually applies to your company or staff you try and work out how much is the minimum pay for a person. First you try to read the award and it is so convoluted and confusing that you go to http://paycheck.fwo.gov.au/PayCheckPlus.aspx. There are literally hundreds of classifications. There are numbers and letters like C7 and C12 and so on. The fear is that if you classify someone the wrong way the rabid public servants will haunt you for the rest of your days.
This is just made to get unions and lawyers involved. No individual could ever hope to understand it.
No wonder Australia has such a high cost base.
Now I can understand the government providing a safety net like a national minimum wage but all these awards. All these little details. Its &%$@&^%$#&^.
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