Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Bet barryw laughing
although he disagree's with the present minumum wage
we now have a new campaign to increase wages to a minumum £8-60 an hour
although not compulsary at the moment, theres a head of steam wanting it to happen
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i think this will be the main plank for the reds at the next general election although blue boris has been pushing for something similar in london.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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It will never happen the employment agencies will always be able to supply minimum wage EU workers
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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This is utter nonsense. By the way Keith (S) it is £7.20, the £8.30 figure is for London only. It seems I know more about what these people are saying than you
I have already prepared a blog on this daft idea to be uploaded Wednesday.
This idea is just a way to create more unemployment.
Incidentally, I will also show how the real net income of people on the minimum wage can exceed this absurd so called 'living wage' without losing people their jobs and maybe even create jobs.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Barry, excusez-moi, but how will you make a £6.19 minimum wage exceed a proposed £7.20 minimum wage (or £8.30 if in London)? Would it be by making it tax-free?
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Charging in again to make mischief without reading what has been said!
It has been pointed out in several blogs today that for several interns working for Labour MPs the living wage is zero, and they need to catch up with their party policy or the boss is going to look stupid.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Doesn't he already ??
Roger
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Alex doesn't understand facts before he posts...
Been nice knowing you :)
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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barryw is partly correct
the figure quoted was for london so his quote is partly correct.
Interestingly it was also stated that the fear of the minumum wage creating mass unemployment didnt happen.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I can't understand what Barry was claiming he'd be able to prove. I assume he's still experimenting on it
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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keith is right here - doom mongers predicted mass unemployment with the advent of the minimum wage.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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On this thread we have people contending that we don't have mass unemployment; on others we have the same people complaining that we shall soon have 4m on the dole. You can't have it both ways, chaps. Which is it to be?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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The minimum wage is becoming an election issue, and Labour may stand to go up in poll ratings on this.
However, a proper minimum wage at present prices should be £10 an hour net, once tax is paid.
To scrap the minimum wage would send millions on the dole within months.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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£10 an hour after tax !! Probably about £23/25k a year
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I can remember listening many years ago to a speech by a TUC chairman who said that he would not rest until every worker got more than the average wage. I detect the same paradigm in much of Alexander's input here.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Expect the price of a pint down the local to increase along with every other service and product you buy. QE via wage inflation is all this is. Planet London or Boris Island as I know it is expensive enough already without this increase. In the end we all pay for this.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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My cleaner is already complaining about the price of servicing her Mercedes.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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The only obvious thing for the Coalition to do is to add at least a pound an hour to the rates proposed by Labour, which are too low. Then we'll start believing we may be all in it together.
Dave is happy to know that people are listening to him and expecting a fair deal.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There are many businesses that are suffering anyway with all sorts of costs let alone higher employment ones. To cushion the blow of higher wages, it seems the argument I was putting forward a while ago about paying the employed person a minimum wage of £10.00 per hour and then the Government pay the employer the difference, could catch on.
This way, the Government don't pay any benefits to working people (unless they are only working part-time and the family income is below a certain level) but do pay the employer, so he can afford to take on more people: more people in work with more money in their pockets, will mean more spending power.
Is it really that dumb a scheme ?
Roger
