Ok, Joyce is in a tough position, but to stand them down with zero pay is typical why "staff" in Australia is almost always a one way street - it typically ends up being a way to pay less on the promise "you will be looked after", but when it comes to the crunch often it does not happen.<p>So this is just typical of businesses in Australia displacing their business risk to their employees, pocketing the big profits in the boom times and not passing them on to staff, then dishing out the short end of the stick when it suits them.<p>The writing was on the wall that staff was never going to be the same in the 1987 crash, at this time I was a student taking a year off to work and stock up cash to go back and finish off my engineering degree. Because of what I saw in 1987 I have worked contract all my working life.