It’s often considered a “shortage of drivers prepared to work for minimum wage” as far as I know.
There’s no shortage at higher pay levels, and apparently no shortage of drivers looking for full time contracts of some sort.
How many of us have “gone for a job” only to find the T&Cs let alone Pay was totally rubbish - and pulled their application, hopefully before the “unpaid assessment” managed to add insult to injury?
In a world of shrinking wages - we really need to be shrinking those hours as well.
Think about it: If you’re on £7.50ph then you want a 35 hour week - not a bloody 60-84 hour week, compounding such a low hourly rate!
It don’t matter that the 35 hour week x NMW is so low, that you’ll probably get a working tax credit top-up, if you’ve got kids, or even are the only earner in the household.
At the other end of the scale, if you’re on a decent hourly rate, like at the supermarkets - then you want to pump that overtime @ 1.5x - and coin it in all the way!