sir albion
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By the time this is implemented the cost of living would've increased a fair bit and £8 would be bloody useless
By the time this is implemented the cost of living would've increased a fair bit and £8 would be bloody useless
Doesn't buy much now let alone 6 years time.
Instead of sniping do you propose an alternative? Doing nothing isn't really an option so I'd like you to give me some idea of how we can resolve the issue of the UK being a low-wage economy.
Instead of sniping do you propose an alternative? Doing nothing isn't really an option so I'd like you to give me some idea of how we can resolve the issue of the UK being a low-wage economy.
Sniping? What are you on about? I was making the point that even £8 an hour now is pretty low let alone in 2020.
as for demanding I give you ideas, don't you have any of your own then?
The alternative is to look at the situation in 6 years time as its actually pointless because in 6 years time it will literally be similar to what it is now and won't make any diffrence.You can't do much because rents are going through the roof,utility bills keep on rising and food and drink keeps rocketing.Instead of sniping do you propose an alternative? Doing nothing isn't really an option so I'd like you to give me some idea of how we can resolve the issue of the UK being a low-wage economy.
Yvette Cooper MP knows what to do.........she spoke about it less than 6 months ago:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/10/yvette-cooper-migrant-workers-exploitation-crime
In the words of the Guardian.......
"The measures are designed to reassure British workers that immigrant labour will not undercut their wages but the specific proposal is legally fraught since employers will be concerned that it could give the state greater control over the setting of wages in the private sector above and beyond the minimum wage."
So there you have it, next question please.
Ed has made a statement about what he will do when he is in power next year.
Some people just don't have a clue. I have a small business and like my workers I earn less than £8 an hour. Every time the minimum wage increases then mine reduces to pay workers the extra. What happens when people like me have to close their businesses and the workforce don't have a job.
It's all very well having a minimum wage policy for large corporate organisations but how is the small business owner supposed to survive as they have to comply with minimum wage legislation.
Labour have been too namby pamby over raising the minimum wage to £8 an hour over the lifetime of the next parliament. They should have grasped the nettle and announced the £8 an hour promise could be in place in October 2017 by making a 50p annual rise once they were in power.
I would have preferred it if him and the party he was part of had not made the mistakes that they have since admitted to, when they were last in power. Had the chance to implement these ideas then, but just left the country in an awful mess.
Ed can promise what he wants, i expect many more juicy statements between now and the election.
Some people just don't have a clue. I have a small business and like my workers I earn less than £8 an hour. Every time the minimum wage increases then mine reduces to pay workers the extra. What happens when people like me have to close their businesses and the workforce don't have a job.
It's all very well having a minimum wage policy for large corporate organisations but how is the small business owner supposed to survive as they have to comply with minimum wage legislation.
Ed has made a statement about what he will do when he is in power next year.
Have you been on the craft beer earlier than usual ?
If you are unable to pay staff, including yourself, a living wage then the business isn't viable surely?
If you are unable to pay staff, including yourself, a living wage then the business isn't viable surely?
If you are unable to pay staff, including yourself, a living wage then the business isn't viable surely?