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Flexible hours: cut retail red tape?

Posted by: 2UE | 5 August, 2011 - 10:28 AM
Red tape out of control for Australia's retailers?

Does the Australian retail sector need greater flexibility, with shops allowed to open through the night to compete with online rivals. Tim Webster looks at the domestic retail sector, under the pump with retail spending down.

 



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  • Clearly the lazy, overstaffed NSW Public Service needs greater flexibilty too. What with computers running the place, I would of thought a 50%
    reduction would not even be noticed. Starting at the top! It seems whatever department you have to deal with there is always unnecessary dramas! To make you go away! Try getting someone who can speak english properly and who actually knows the department's policy!!!
    They seem to make-up their own policy just to get rid of you!
    I tell them this not India, we have different policy to punjabi council!!

    CHANTIVONG Tuesday 9 August, 2011 - 4:17 PM
  • I am sorry but to reduce staff salaries and penalty rates will not bring people back to the shops.It will drive staff from the shops because with cost of living sky rocketing utilities rates transport medicines.
    Why do the workers have to pay for managers and bosses.
    Why dont these same bosses advocate to the goverment to stop these incredible steep rises in utilities rates etc insted.

    If people dont have any disposable income anymore because of greedy utilitiy companies incompetent councils raising rates and incompetent politicians on both sides you are only interested in one thing power and permanent superannuation support income courtesy of the taxpayers

    john golding Tuesday 9 August, 2011 - 2:01 PM
  • What absolute bollocks! The Productivity Commission whatever that is, is quite obviously not very productive! How much did it cost us taxpayers to have them come up with this load of tripe and tommy rot? Sadly it is too late to undo the damage done! In fact we`re already fracked! But here is what should have happened... Somebody should have pulled the powerplug out from that Interweb thingy, you know the thing I mean, that nasty, vile, bullying, kiddy porning, national economy destroying thingy! But no, instead they pulled the plug out from the once full bathtub that was Australia`s economy! Hello out there, can you hear the sound of the vortex in the plug hole yet, as our nation goes ever rapidly down the gurgler??????? Buy buy you! (pun most heartily intended)

    Robert Friday 5 August, 2011 - 8:57 PM

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