Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#2
I agree it's wrong to pay less than the minimum wage, but surely those people shouldn't have agreed to be taken on for those wages ?
Did they report their employers to the authorities, or were they happy to work for their measley wage and someone else reported it ?
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#3
I wonder how many workers were from overseas and did not know their rights, good to see the rogue employers named and shamed.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
I wonder how many workers were just simply grateful to get a job. I hope there is not a local backlash for the businesses that causes them to cease trading and all their employees end up out of a job.
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
#5
In lots of traditional working class jobs, the minim wage has become the maximum wage.
Adding to this misery, is the parasite agencies forcing workers on to CIS 4. Bogus self employment, so the boss can circumnavigate and dismiss his duty to pay ,National insurance contribution.
Then on top of this, forcing workers to pay a payroll company to do the wages processing, workers pay to get paid.
Never a mention on this from new labour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#6
Still there are businesses paying less than the minimum wage, new rules are planned where the fine will be based on each underpaid employee.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31596323Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
#7
More smoke
It will not stop the gang masters getting one bundle of money, and then splitting it amongst the cheap eu workers that think it's a good wage in comparison to what thay get back home.
The labour party fools keep banging on about the minim wage, with out understanding the working reality of millions of low pay workers.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#8
The church is one of them yet they were on the tv telling companys to pay up.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#9
The Church of England came under fire for not paying all their staff the living wage after exhorting businesses to cough up, very different from the minimum wage.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
#10
True - it was the Church of England's Natalie Bennett moment, cough, cough, sorry got a terrible cold don't yer know.