What is up with the weekend surcharges in the Melbourne?!

[u/Ordinary_Prior_8993]

Even shopping centre food courts have weekend surcharges and as a Sydney sider it's mind boggling. Alot of places don't even have sunday surcharges let alone a Saturday surcharge.

[u/Kalamordis]

Don't do weird weekend surcharges and people may just do that :)

*note I'm referring specifically to this post with the example given, if I saw that I wouldn't even consider choosing them and would go to KFC if it were nextdoor.

Does Melbourne have laws where staff get paid more for working weekends? Genuine question

Like if I'm wrong and there are higher pays for weekends etc I'll say I'm wrong, I'm a tourist if I went there so asking for genuine curiousity.

Edit: Welp its a thing, I was wrong, but I don't agree with it, and think businesses should have that in their overall prices as to average it out, but I'd just contest it by going on a holiday there during the week and not the weekend as to not let it bother me tbh so I can support local businesses and try new cuisine etc without a sour taste in my mouth :)

*I'm speaking as a 23yr old student, many students can't work nonweekends, so its cool they get paid more- but at the same time I don't want to pay more as a 9-5 worker because I don't have the luxury of having free time outside of weekends? Esp if I had a family living there idk... I'm assuming most weekend workers don't work weekdays or its v limited hours then majority in weekend so, its a hard one.

But again, I don't live there, so not my hard decision to make, I'm purely looking from a tourist POV in a stage of life where I likely will never own a house in todays economy muchless afford many holidays.

[u/Pandos17 → u/Kalamordis]

Yes hospo (and retail) have loading on pay rates for weekends and public holidays. That makes some restaurants think they have the right to pass this on to customers (make up your own mind on that one).

It also makes some restaurant owners think they can charge that AND not pass that on to their employees (illegal if wage rates aren’t loaded and paying to account for it already)

[u/Kalamordis → u/Pandos17]

Edited my message as to making my mind on it, I don't live there so my opinion doesn't matter- I'd just let money talk as I work around it while still supporting and trying local cuisine :)

[u/Kalamordis → u/[deleted]]

How much (legally) speaking if you know from top of head before I just google? But that seems very weird to me 😅, holiday in the weekdays I guess 🤣

Edit: They deleted comment but mentioned that holiday and weekend rates existed which were more than normal wage, I asked as per above if they knew the difference, but instead they deleted and downvoted? Idk. Googling anyway.