Asked about the prospect of urging more Australians to work from home, Industry Minister Tim Ayres said people would make their own decisions.
“Work from home is a viable option for many, many people, and they’ll make that call,” he told ABC News on Monday. “We’re not going further than that.”
JackRyan13 on
“But it doesn’t help small businesses. It certainly doesn’t help the truckers and the fishers and the farmers and the manufacturers and the miners that are relying on fuel supply”
I don’t understand this at all. If less inner city people are transiting to work reducing demand for fuel how does this not help the industry much more reliant on it? Is this just opposition for the sake of opposition or what
Also bold of Labor to continue not to rock the boat and playing the semi safe card like always.
ShiftyWindow on
Ahh yes, the people famously have all the power in the workplace, not management
Stonp on
Victoria had no problem putting into law 2 day WFH mandated opportunity for full time workers. I don’t see how the federal government can’t do the same to alleviate demand for fuel.
cactusgenie on
Great, enshrine the choice in our fair work legislation then.
bundy554 on
I actually haven’t had as much success as I would have liked walking to public transport as found myself actually driving more to use PT since the fuel crisis started – need to get better in my fuel minimisation use
NotTheBusDriver on
Deputy Lib leader Jane Hume said “If people can work from home and they want to and it works for their employers, fine, I think that’s terrific. But it doesn’t help small businesses. It certainly doesn’t help the truckers and the fishers and the farmers and the manufacturers and the miners that are relying on fuel supply.”
But it does help the truckers, farmers etc. The less fuel the rest of us use; the more there is available elsewhere in the economy.
piglette12 on
If a desk worker like me buys less petrol from my local petrol station, that leaves more petrol for the essential worker and factory worker and courier etc who use the same petrol station. Plus my car won’t contribute to the clogging up of the roads, allowing these other people to use their expensive petrol more efficiently.
And given the extra early filling up of train station parking and the super crowded trains in the past couple of weeks, I’m all for other people WFH on the days I have to commute into the office. I don’t think that other people WFH “aren’t helping me”, because they absolutely are.
It doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game with a winner and a loser, Jane. WFH-ers and on-site-workers absolutely can ALL benefit from the encouragement of proportionate and reasonable WFH.
nageset on
Work from home is you and your employers decision to make….government can bugger off! Jane Hume was right but gets roasted, bad luck. My advice is to suspend the fuel tax over the period and then legislate harsh penalties for price gouging!…but that won’t happen…government trough Dwellers!!
MentalMachine on
>Asked about the prospect of urging more Australians to work from home, Industry Minister Tim Ayres said people would make their own decisions.
“I chose to WFH, and now I have no job, and under the Labor/LNP housing policies, soon to have no home!”
>”Work from home is a viable option for many, many people, and they’ll make that call,” he told ABC News on Monday.
Literally not what’s being suggested, but good for a minister to imply he has 0 knowledge of his portfolio, all very great stuff.
>”We’re not going further than that. But we want a flexible industrial relations system, where Australians can take advantage of these rights and continue to contribute in a productive way.”
“that’s why we only started talking about productivity last year, and seem to be moving very, very slowly acting on the round table talks, and seem to be backing forcing people to waste fuel to work next to each other to ensure office rent seekers can make money!”
I really do enjoy how the Australian govts response to the crisis across the board does seem to be “let the US do what it wants, don’t raise opposition, don’t change/recommend anything internally, head on down to the Winchester, and wait for this whole thing to blow over”
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Asked about the prospect of urging more Australians to work from home, Industry Minister Tim Ayres said people would make their own decisions.
“Work from home is a viable option for many, many people, and they’ll make that call,” he told ABC News on Monday. “We’re not going further than that.”
“But it doesn’t help small businesses. It certainly doesn’t help the truckers and the fishers and the farmers and the manufacturers and the miners that are relying on fuel supply”
I don’t understand this at all. If less inner city people are transiting to work reducing demand for fuel how does this not help the industry much more reliant on it? Is this just opposition for the sake of opposition or what
Also bold of Labor to continue not to rock the boat and playing the semi safe card like always.
Ahh yes, the people famously have all the power in the workplace, not management
Victoria had no problem putting into law 2 day WFH mandated opportunity for full time workers. I don’t see how the federal government can’t do the same to alleviate demand for fuel.
Great, enshrine the choice in our fair work legislation then.
I actually haven’t had as much success as I would have liked walking to public transport as found myself actually driving more to use PT since the fuel crisis started – need to get better in my fuel minimisation use
Deputy Lib leader Jane Hume said “If people can work from home and they want to and it works for their employers, fine, I think that’s terrific. But it doesn’t help small businesses. It certainly doesn’t help the truckers and the fishers and the farmers and the manufacturers and the miners that are relying on fuel supply.”
But it does help the truckers, farmers etc. The less fuel the rest of us use; the more there is available elsewhere in the economy.
If a desk worker like me buys less petrol from my local petrol station, that leaves more petrol for the essential worker and factory worker and courier etc who use the same petrol station. Plus my car won’t contribute to the clogging up of the roads, allowing these other people to use their expensive petrol more efficiently.
And given the extra early filling up of train station parking and the super crowded trains in the past couple of weeks, I’m all for other people WFH on the days I have to commute into the office. I don’t think that other people WFH “aren’t helping me”, because they absolutely are.
It doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game with a winner and a loser, Jane. WFH-ers and on-site-workers absolutely can ALL benefit from the encouragement of proportionate and reasonable WFH.
Work from home is you and your employers decision to make….government can bugger off! Jane Hume was right but gets roasted, bad luck. My advice is to suspend the fuel tax over the period and then legislate harsh penalties for price gouging!…but that won’t happen…government trough Dwellers!!
>Asked about the prospect of urging more Australians to work from home, Industry Minister Tim Ayres said people would make their own decisions.
“I chose to WFH, and now I have no job, and under the Labor/LNP housing policies, soon to have no home!”
>”Work from home is a viable option for many, many people, and they’ll make that call,” he told ABC News on Monday.
Literally not what’s being suggested, but good for a minister to imply he has 0 knowledge of his portfolio, all very great stuff.
>”We’re not going further than that. But we want a flexible industrial relations system, where Australians can take advantage of these rights and continue to contribute in a productive way.”
“that’s why we only started talking about productivity last year, and seem to be moving very, very slowly acting on the round table talks, and seem to be backing forcing people to waste fuel to work next to each other to ensure office rent seekers can make money!”
I really do enjoy how the Australian govts response to the crisis across the board does seem to be “let the US do what it wants, don’t raise opposition, don’t change/recommend anything internally, head on down to the Winchester, and wait for this whole thing to blow over”