aBr November 2014 | Page 17

WHEEL SERVICE EQUIPMENT This also applies to the 1.3 million strong public sector labour force, only they don’t seem to understand this. For when going by appearances, all they need to do is threaten and the state will provide. Of course, it isn’t the state that pays their salaries, but the rest of society, either through taxes or higher borrowing, or being denied services or infrastructure now being consumed through unproductive remuneration. And states can be bankrupted if history is any guide, and taxpayer revolts are as common as peasant revolts, the latest example locally being e-tolling. As to other labour onslaughts, I hear men are now demanding 10 days paternity leave. I am all for maternity leave, but when it comes to paternity I wonder. Especially higher-ups, with cushy jobs and high incomes, in large private businesses, whether local or foreign owned, or in the public sector, where employment becomes guaranteed short of malfeasance (and even on occasion with it), may get tempted to get too innovative for their own and our good. For there are 52 weeks in a year, meaning 260 potential workdays, except higher-ups do much less. There is the 30-day leave cycle, 10 days of public holidays, and 20 days of sick leav