With any pay rise, leave entitlement, or other changes in employee conditions, we must look at productivity to make sure we can pay for it. We constantly compare ourselves with other countries when it comes to the minimum wage, conditions, and leave provisions, but we constantly ignore productivity—the most important factor that enables these countries to provide different conditions to their employees. Paying people more while expecting no extra productivity is just naive. People who work hard should be paid more. Unfortunately, Labour, the Public Service Association, and the Council of Trade Unions don't agree. Productivity seems like a dirty word.