Why not have the same rules for company execs ? The lowest bid wins. I'll run BHP for $150k pa . I know a bloke who would probably do it for $120k but he lives in Burma so he would probably want FIFO expenses as well.
Alternatively, don't pay execs a salary at all, but make their payments linked to dividends paid to shareholders.
Its amazing how peoples perceptions differ between industries.
If you look at some male dominated, above average paying jobs eg. mining, automotive. The consensus view is we should be protecting these jobs for Australians eg. tariffs, government funding, no foreign workers.
You then look at an industry like retail, female dominated with below average, if not just about minimum wages. The consensus view here is no GST on overseas purchases and competition is good for the consumer at whatever cost.
When Borders closed down did anyone care about their jobs? Yet when toyota sacks a percentage of their workers after receiving huge amounts of taxpayer money we get an 8 page feature in the Herald Sun for the next 3 days...
A $500 product. The Australian retailer employs Australian staff, rents a premises in Australia and all the services that goes with running a business (rates, electricity, accounting etc) and their reward for using Australian services is they have to charge their customers an extra 10% compared to their overseas competitor along with all that goes with GST compliance.
Its basically an anti-tariff.
Reverse the situation and just imagine this ever happening the automotive industry...
Australia needs to stop playing favourites with certain unionised industries. If competition is good for retail, its good for mining and cars. If protectionism is good, its good for plenty of other industries too...
Yah, been happening for years in the hospitals, with overseas trained doctors coming over here, resulting in many very highly skilled practitioners being paid considerably less than $220k per year, for extremely stressful work.
I fail to see how a truck driver in the mine in the remote community should be paid more than their hospital doctor in the same town, but then again, I do tend to value the 12 years of training required.
Bring it on, bring pays to reasonable levels, limit inflation for ordinary "working families" and stop the rot of the mining extortion in the off chance the boom declines and mass closures of mines because of higher wages happens.
MW
also true the bloke who does a little extra will keep his job
yeah i honed in on a gubmint website "we pay the same" dribble.
like i said someone anyone i challenge you show me how we cant fill a lousy 1700
skilled jobs......
you must work for the guvment to believe that sort of stuff.
like i said ask yourself this & hone in ok
do we not have 1700 skilled workers to take these jobs?
wake up there is no shortage...
so why dont all of us here post the skills needed to do the preferred job
in THE MINES
tb
in my working life I have yet to see someone got the sack who work hard, reliable and put in the extra yard when required of them.
I seen plenty of smart people with attitudes and demanding tone get the chopped all the time....
Our nation has become soft.
If we cannot do the work, we need to encourage fit working migrants to bolster our slack workers.
It has always been thus.
Australia is a nation of migrants.
gg
The Gillard government has approved the recruitment of over 1700 foreign workers when Australian workers are looking for jobs in the mines.
I do not believe it.
What is her and her government's plan for Australia?
How can we grow our nation when this government spends without accountability, and outsources work to foreigners that can be performed by Australians.
We need to make money as a population before we can splurge it away.
This is unconscionable.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nati...-1226367702108
gg
GG
Your contribution above seems at odds with your outraged protestations against the import of 1,700 foreign workers quoted below. (Originally in the "Gillard prefers foreigners to Australian Workers" thread start by yourself.)
Can you explain the discrepancy between these posts and where you stand on imports of foreign workers ?
Good under the Libs , bad under Labor ?
Ha - I noticed that as well and just assumed two different people were posting from the same account
Or he had a change of heart perhaps
fail to see? how long do you think it takes to learn to be a roadtrain driver? just as long as it takes to train a doctor.
how many OVERSEAS trained roadtrain drivers do you reckon we import?
why shouldnt we get first choice of jobs in our own country.
Unions are necessary. Anyone who thinks they aren't needs to work for an abusive employer. The hard part is getting the balance right, for unions shouldn't run companies. Despite trying to.
What is her and her government's plan for Australia?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?