where do you think they got the figures for the minimum wage from, they just looked at what hgv drivers would work for and put up with and based it on that, they know we are all dreamers and never stick together and would work for buttons, all very professional of course.
My daughter who is attending college has just got a “Saturday” job, never worked before …at all as she is studying A levels etc.
So no experience whatsoever - £8 per hour… How can someone who has a HGV…any HGV calss be paid lower or even the same , love my daughter …BUT , she has no experience & although is very conscientious & diligent I cannot see how a young person going to work for “PinMoney” can be worth more than a as a qualified driver ?
I doubt a statutory £15 hr is achievable but when you look at the wage disparity today between high execs ,I believe its 200 times the average wage, then you have to wonder?
mas430:
My daughter who is attending college has just got a “Saturday” job, never worked before …at all as she is studying A levels etc.
So no experience whatsoever - £8 per hour… How can someone who has a HGV…any HGV calss be paid lower or even the same , love my daughter …BUT , she has no experience & although is very conscientious & diligent I cannot see how a young person going to work for “PinMoney” can be worth more than a as a qualified driver ?I doubt a statutory £15 hr is achievable but when you look at the wage disparity today between high execs ,I believe its 200 times the average wage, then you have to wonder?
Because your daughters employer couldn’t find anyone to work for those wages on a Saturday, until she came along. Unfortunately we have an endless line of bums for seats from here to Bucharest. It’s all a case of supply and demand
mas430:
My daughter who is attending college has just got a “Saturday” job, never worked before …at all as she is studying A levels etc.
So no experience whatsoever - £8 per hour… How can someone who has a HGV…any HGV calss be paid lower or even the same , love my daughter …BUT , she has no experience & although is very conscientious & diligent I cannot see how a young person going to work for “PinMoney” can be worth more than a as a qualified driver ?
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I don’t know what your Daughter is doing, but could it be the case that the full time employee’s wouldn’t do Saturday for £8, and your daughter is effectively keeping the weekend wage where she has her sat job down, to what is probably a weekday hourly rate, regardless of experience.
I’m not having a go at your Daughter good on her for getting work, plenty her age who cant be arsed, just saying its an effect of the Market 
The Government wont change a thing, and wont have a debate on the issue, as they know that the constant bleeting by the industry about driver shortage is a smoke screen.
Every time there is a slight chance of a driver shortage, therefore a potential increase in wages due to supply and demand, thus leading to a potential increase in inflation, and does worry Governments, they find a group of ready and able bods to reverse the supply and demand equation.
In the mid 80’s it was a change to drivers hours regs, moving from a 12 & half hour max spread day, to the 15’s we have now. In the mid 90’s it was John Major’s peace dividend, and the slashing of the Army on Rhine and elsewhere, so that it seemed every other redundant squaddie got a heavy goods licence, in 2004 we got the east Europeans, and now we have the Bulgarians and Romanians.
In PMQ’s today the leader of the house stated that the Government is talking to 50 different sectors of british industry to see possible effect Brexit may have on them, you can but your mortgage that the RHA & FTA our doing their level best to get some kind of driver permit scheme to keep the euro drivers coming over here to sit behind the wheel in british trucks 
the same as the NFU want the seasonal workers scheme to encompass Europeans again as it used too
Now wonder where the driver shortage story has originated from
Further to this debate. My Wife has an occasional peace work job that she does from home, its on an irregular basis and is paid on production, she earns around £12-£15 ph from it, and there is no commuting as they deliver and collect the goods. Recently they asked her if she could do some work in the factory on a different product, she agreed and was told they’d pay her hourly, but she didn’t ask how much anyway it was £7.20 ph so she only done 3 hours and told them that they needn’t be asking her again. She is in a position where that money is purely extra’s (her wardrobe fund it seems) as My wages are enough to live on, so could turn it down, but the firm were able to get another home worker to go in and cover this job and that is supply and demand