Re your article on the campaign by the NSW Business Chamber to cut penalty rates "Campaign builds to cut holiday pay" (Leader, April 7).
I'd welcome a public debate about this important issue. Instead we have a campaign to change a long-established principle, the only argument is sympathy for small business cafe owners.
What about sympathy for workers in essential services who can't enjoy their family and important social occasions?
Changing penalty rates will have widespread economic and social implications, far beyond cafes.
Philip O'Brien, Kogarah
Please explain to me why childcare centres and cafes continually complain about costs, but new ones open.
Cafes continually open then complain about paying staff penalty rates. If theses costs are too difficult why did they go into this investment?
Debra Graham, Carlton
