1% Pay Rise !

[mikey4444]

Just had a letter from my employer, to say my pay will go up by 1%, as from 1st August !

Wow !

We are all in this together apparently !

[naomi24]

//My point was that the Tories have been in power since 2010//

No they haven't. Before May this year we had a coalition government.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...we have had the Tories in power since 2010, of that there is no doubt. All the Libdems did was to stop the more rabid of daves policies becoming a reality. It was hardly a coalition of equals was it !

[jd_1984]

I got 2.5% last year, 3% year before and count myself fortunate

[mikey4444]

Well done jd....it seems you have done well...not quite up to bankers rates yet though !

[Togo]

// Just had a letter from my employer, to say my pay will go up by 1%, as from 1st August //...I am a Freelance //

That's a bit confusing. I always thought that freelance meant self employed.

[Svejk]

Yes, I'm a tad confused as well. As you claimed to be on the minimum wage, will this 1% be on top of the increases Osborne announced? I've never heard of people on the minimum wage getting any kind of non-mandatory increase.

[venator]

Mikey

//Wolfie...I am a Freelance Social Survey Interviewer.//

I may be a badly informed FCA, but freelance doesn't usually mean "employed"

Please elucidate?

[retrocop]

Funny innit
Seems that those who whinge the most about the present government austerity measures that affect their pay are championing the cause for millions of £s of our money to justify foreign aid,benefits to immigrants who have not contributed to our Tax and Ni system,Health migrants who are getting millions of ponds of free health care for anything between maternity,HIV,TB and other transmittable diseases they care to infect us with.
Let us not forget who got us into this mess in the first place so it is a bit ripe to complain there is not enough to satisfy your wage demands.
Lets here our lefty contingent complain where British funds are being wrongly diverted and then we can have a certain amount of sympathy for their gripes.
We are,indeed,all in it together but some of us do not support this criminal largesse.Quite a few OAPs who have paid into the system are not as well off as some of our unwanted visitors.
Mikey. Bit of an insult to nurses to compare yourself to their wage freeze. My wife assists in the well being of her patients,does not follow the union directives to strike and has stayed with the same vocation for just under 40yrs.She does something vital for peoples lives. Bit different to a Freelance door knocker who probably pees off the inhabitants behind the door.

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[venator]

retrocop - excellent gripe, but have any of these things just happened under the current Government?

no way Jose...

[ukbod2015]

As a recently retired civil servant I can confirm we had years of pay restraint including the 1% era. If we believed the figures they quote for inflation they are always above that so any "rise" is an effective pay cut in real terms.

[Svejk]

Within weeks of Labour opening the floodgates to European immigrants, in 2004, the wages of chippies and steel-fixers in London plummeted from £240 a day to £30 and run at 50% of 2004 levels to this day.
Despite being AB's biggest cheerleader for this assault on working class wages you now have the affront to whinge about only getting 1%.
This callous lack of empathy for others is pretty standard among 'so-called' socialists nowadays.

[Svejk]

Again, ukbod, try earning half of what you earned 10 years ago.