{"id":15238,"date":"2017-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinnacle-people.ap.applyflow.com\/penalty-rates-lowered\/"},"modified":"2017-03-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:00:00","slug":"penalty-rates-lowered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/penalty-rates-lowered\/","title":{"rendered":"Penalty Rates Lowered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFollowing ongoing debate regarding hospitality penalty rates for Sundays and public holidays, the Fair Work Commission handed down their decision on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<strong>Hospitality Industry Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tChanges to both Permanent and Casual Staff. Permanent staff under this award will have Sunday penalty rates reduced from 175% to 150% Public Holiday rates from 250% to 225%. Casual staff Public Holiday rates will reduce from 275% to 250%.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<strong>Restaurant Industry Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tOnly Permanent staff are affected with a reduction of Public Holiday rates from 250% to 225%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe rate reductions come into effect on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of July 2017, so there is still plenty of time to convey these changes to your staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following ongoing debate regarding hospitality penalty rates for Sundays and public holidays, the FWC handed down their decision on the 23rd February 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}