Peasants are revolting...
- 27 February 2013 11:28217711...or they soon will be.
The Agricultural Wages Board is to abolished.
[The Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) sets the minimum wage and other terms and conditions of employment for workers employed in agriculture. The board also has powers to decide other terms and conditions of employment including holidays and sick pay.]
As recommended by the 'independent' Farming Regulation Task Force which reported in 2011...
"The key strategic message from our report is that Defra, its agencies and delivery partners need to establish an entirely new approach to and culture of regulation; otherwise the frustration that we, farmers and food processing businesses have felt will
continue. The essence of this approach is about strengthening the partnership between Government and the farming and food processing industries..."
http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/files/pb13528-farm-reg-task-summary1.pdf
Eye read that it is the Lib-Dem MP David Heath that is leading the charge against minimum standards, and according to defra this will save employers £279m over ten years
Alas even the Duchy of Cornwall thinks the overtime rates are "ridiculous".Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 27 February 2013 11:51217713A Parliamentary committee questioned the head of the FRTF in June 2012...
"Q4 Chair: Of the 19 recommendations directed at the Food Standards Agency, 18 were accepted. I know you have a close interest, and a couple of us have constituency interests, particularly in desinewed meat. If you take that as an example of how not to engage with Europe, do you think there are lessons that we can learn when we are trying to dismantle the level of regulation, and we have a unilateral own goal that bans meat by UK producers only?
Richard Macdonald:...I very, very strongly believe that if you want to get the most out of Europe-including out of Europe-you have to engage. The flip side of that is true. Whether that is so in this case, I would have to be honest and say I am not able to make a judgment. What I am pretty clear about in terms of the issue is that there is no food safety risk..."
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmenvfru/308/12061301.htmIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 27 February 2013 12:52217718tried to plough through the defra publication and cannot find the wage rates for agricultural workers.
- 27 February 2013 13:43217722I did see earlier that there were/are six pay grades...and here they are...
https://www.gov.uk/agricultural-workers-rights/pay-and-overtimeIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 27 February 2013 13:59217723This from February 2012...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/21/cut-farming-red-tape?INTCMP=SRCHIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 27 February 2013 15:17217729i suppose the overtime rates could be cut, we don't want the prince of wales to go short..
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27 February 2013 16:21217735thats a larf howard,the stinker is actuly rolling in it. - 27 February 2013 17:21217736in the good old days you would have been taken straight to the tower and summarily executed for comments like that brian.
head on a spike outside as an example to others. - Brian Dixon
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- 27 February 2013 23:27217817The Duchy of Cornwall, apparently, makes a sizable profit.
But it's a known fact that the House of Windsor will pay the minimum wage to the manual workers in their palaces and on their land estates.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 27 February 2013 23:31217818Roll-on the day when all these jobs are on a zero-hour contract basis. Then the worker can just sit in the tractor and idly drag a plough over a field until such time as his 'benefactor' requires his services.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 27 February 2013 23:47217820Horsemeat scandal: farmers 'must not bear cost of tighter regulation'
Farmers say they could be forced out of business if cost of extra red tape falls to them
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/27/horsemeat-scandal-farmers-tighter-regulationIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 28 February 2013 06:05217827Why is there a need for a body for agriculture workers ?
Roger - Brian Dixon
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28 February 2013 07:10217843some goverment nonsence roger.and there is non such thing as free labour,boils down to slavery. - 28 February 2013 09:39217882#13
Roger, why was there a need and now there isn't?
This can hardly be part of the bonfire of the Quangos when it is being sold as a saving for employers.
From #1
" according to defra this will save employers £279m over ten years"Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.