But not if the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association have anything to do about it.

The group were here at Dubbo to urge retail workers to make sure they had their say in the campaign to preserve penalty rates.

People who receive penalty rates receive them because they aren't working in the normal nine-to-five working hours time slot.

Their shifts start and end when the rest of the workforce is in bed, or enjoying a leisure day with their family during the weekend.

Cutting penalty rates will affect the people who receive them as well.

Under-employment runs at a high percentage throughout the Orana region and for those people under-employed every little bit helps.

This includes the extra bit they receive in penalty rates at the end of their shift.

Take that away and you are taking away half of the wage they use to live off each and every week.

This in turn will mean a decrease in dollars in the local economy.

Rather than going to the workers, who then spend the money in the town, those funds would go back to the business.

And if that business isn't local, then those funds head out of town.

Workers in the Parkes electorate could lose between $6.3 million and $22.4 million a year.

Those workers are already battling rising costs and lower regional wages so they need to ensure their voices are heard by their local MP.