Okay, so this little piece of legislation forces employers to compensate their employees for working on a Public Holiday by giving them time-and-a-half and a day off.
This, I suppose, is good.
However, why does this then automatically have to get passed on to the customer by applying a surcharge?
An example of this is the local restaurant we went to on Saturday, where the surcharge would have been 15% if we had gone today or Sunday.
The food is not 15% better. The service certainly isn't.
Why discourage customers by putting on the surcharge?
Why not just absorb it? |