Perth / Western Australia

“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.