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National Living Wage Comes Into Force
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I have issues with the concept of £7:20 being anything like a real "living wage"
but it means a pay rise, nevertheless.
Anybody on here that will benefit as from today ?
I have issues with the concept of £7:20 being anything like a real "living wage"
but it means a pay rise, nevertheless.
Anybody on here that will benefit as from today ?
Answers
In my opinion it was only a purloining of the phrase in order to raise the minimum wage level and fool the public into thinking it was more. And it seemed to work.
07:29 Fri 01st Apr 2016
It is not a great deal by our UK standards but it is higher than in the US and far higher than in most of the countries that we seek to compete with. Many on the living wage will get in work benefits too. There are also many self employed people in the UK who cannot afford to pay themselves the living wage
OG, you aren't fooled, and neither is Mikey apparently, so why assume other people are? The problem is you only consider one side of the coin, Give the working man more - good idea - but how do small businesses pay for it? They are forced to charge the consumer more, the consumer is reluctant to pay the price, the business collapses and with it the jobs. Marvellous!
My my Mickey, do you ever think past your Marxists ideaology?
Foring a wage up is not all roses at all. As pointed out above small businesses often are struggling to make ends meet. Owners often will earn less than the min wage, guess you dont care about them though you will have them labelled as evil masters or some such rubbish.
Then we get to the more practicval matte. Once such issue is child care. Many childcare assistats are on min wage (some less as u 25 of course). Put up the salary and where do you think the extra cash will come from? Thin air? No those same people who you just paid extra too just find themselves paying more to nurseies, travel, supermarkets etc.
In addition you have the problem that by raising the min wage of the lowest employee their supervisor wi then become agrieved and will ant more. And then their supervisor and so it goes on. You simply end up back at square one.
So barring a move to total communism, something no country has achieve with success you are stuck with market forces.
Foring a wage up is not all roses at all. As pointed out above small businesses often are struggling to make ends meet. Owners often will earn less than the min wage, guess you dont care about them though you will have them labelled as evil masters or some such rubbish.
Then we get to the more practicval matte. Once such issue is child care. Many childcare assistats are on min wage (some less as u 25 of course). Put up the salary and where do you think the extra cash will come from? Thin air? No those same people who you just paid extra too just find themselves paying more to nurseies, travel, supermarkets etc.
In addition you have the problem that by raising the min wage of the lowest employee their supervisor wi then become agrieved and will ant more. And then their supervisor and so it goes on. You simply end up back at square one.
So barring a move to total communism, something no country has achieve with success you are stuck with market forces.
Clearly some feel the amount is still too low at £7.20 per hour and the term 'living wage' is a con. The Living Wage Foundation has been campaigning for a 'living wage' of £8.25 per hour. I wonder if that is also considered to be a con term?
Perhaps the term shouldn't be taken too literally since it takes no account of how many hours someone works. If someone works 45 hours a week at £7.25 then it's a reasonable sum; but if someone works only 15 hours a week then it gives nowhere near enough to live on for most people.
Perhaps the term shouldn't be taken too literally since it takes no account of how many hours someone works. If someone works 45 hours a week at £7.25 then it's a reasonable sum; but if someone works only 15 hours a week then it gives nowhere near enough to live on for most people.
