Marilyn is off to work again this morning. It's a Public Holiday so she will be paid double-time and, of course, she is delighted about that. It's been a long time since she received penalty rates. Working, as she did, in boarding schools meant that she was on-call seven days a week no matter whether it was Easter Sunday or the Queens Birthday.
I find it interesting that there was no work yesterday. Marilyn was told the AEC doesn't work on Sundays but has no trouble with public holidays. Why, I wonder, is there still this feeling that Sunday is somehow special? With church attendance at its lowest lever ever, it's odd that the Christian day of worship receives special attention. Many businesses still have to pay penalty rates for a day which has lessening relevance. And, is Christianity still the most-practised religion? It would be interesting to look at the figures to see whether we are holding on to a tradition that no longer makes sense in our increasingly Godless society.
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