rob22888:
chrisdalott:
everybody deserves 10 an hour. the whole country needs a pay riseSo, the minimum salary for a full time job (40 hours) should be £20,800?
There will be an awful lot of managers out there on low 20’s wanting a substantial pay rise as well to reinstate the gap, otherwise why bother?
Everything will just get more expensive to pay for it all & then a few years down the line Jeremy Corbyn will be campaigning for £12ph…
Honestly, the minimum wage is getting too high if anything. The real problem is all these lousy zero hour contracts & the ever increasing popularity of agencies & the ‘flexible workforce’, ie. employees with bugger all financial security.
This is what it boils down to. Everyone quotes the aldi rate but it is very hard to get a full time job. They are all part time and overtime. Say no to the overtime because you have plans for Saturday night and you won’t get asked again for a couple of weeks. Holidays and sick all based on the contracted hours as well. Even if the hourly rate is high if you only get 15-20 a week you can’t keep a family on it.
Whilst the driving hourly rate is lower you can be sure to get the hours in to make a living. I am not saying that I think thats the right way but a lot of people don’t have a choice now.
The days of full time jobs all over are gone and only getting worse.