Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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#21
Part 2 Gig Economy (same source): Main disadvantages
Interviewees also identified a variety of perceived disadvantages to working in the gig economy. These can be grouped as follows:
Lack of security in terms of work, working hours and pay
Lack of employment rights, such as access to sick pay and maternity pay
Low pay
Loneliness and social isolation.
Whilst many of those interviewed cited flexible working arrangements as an advantage to working in the gig economy (see above), a significant proportion also expressed concerns about the irregularity of work, as this also meant that their income was not fixed. Some said that they would prefer to work in an office environment, in which one has a set salary at the end of the month.
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#22
The petition is very close to getting the 100,000 signatures which would force a Commons debate.
Captain Haddock
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#23
Yup.
If only we could be more like Finland (unemployment rate of 9.2 per cent) where they are pulling the plug on the mad idea of universal income :-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/23/finland-ends-universal-basic-income-experiment/
Or Germany where in 2014, 1.5 million people A WEEK used food banks in Germany. (it would also appear that some of them operate a Germans only policy!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43210596 … )
Or France where youth unemployment rate in 2016 was 24.6 per cent, or around one in four. And this was around double the UK rate of 13 per cent.
So let's all sign the petition because loads of people don't have exactly the job they enjoy doing with the hours they like in the UK. Oh hang on. That's why it's a job and they have to pay you money to compensate you - otherwise it would be what's known as a hobby.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#24
Captain Haddock wrote:Yup.
If only we could be more like Finland (unemployment rate of 9.2 per cent) where they are pulling the plug on the mad idea of universal income :-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/23/finland-ends-universal-basic-income-experiment/
Or Germany where in 2014, 1.5 million people A WEEK used food banks in Germany. (it would also appear that some of them operate a Germans only policy!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43210596 … )
Or France where youth unemployment rate in 2016 was 24.6 per cent, or around one in four. And this was around double the UK rate of 13 per cent.
So let's all sign the petition because loads of people don't have exactly the job they enjoy doing with the hours they like in the UK. Oh hang on. That's why it's a job and they have to pay you money to compensate you - otherwise it would be what's known as a hobby.
OK Bob I give in, where does the above tie in with the petition?
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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#25
The wealthiest 62 people in the world own as much as the bottom half of the world's population (3.5 billion people!). Furthermore, the top 1% are more wealthy than the remaining 99%.
Source:
https://www.deccanherald.com/content/557523/impact-neoliberalism.html
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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#26
Petition is based on this thread name, my fishy friend.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Brian Dixon
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#27
#23, no still wont sign it, who ever started the petition can stick it up there jacksy.
Weird Granny Slater
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#28
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:OK Bob I give in, where does the above tie in with the petition?
Perhaps it's that the guys and gals in the house of uppers cannot find 'exactly the job they enjoy doing with the hours they like', so they have to settle for sitting around chatting to eachother, hanging out in the bars and restaurants, and picking up the odd directorship while waiting for a suitable shelf-stacking job to come along. It keeps them off the dole, away from the food banks, and their income is truly universal.
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Guest 1713- Registered: 14 Mar 2016
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#29
Don't agree with much of what you have to say but on this subject I agree with thee in principle. I'd rather take the lot out place em against a wall .... and guess the rest.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#30
ali1967, would that be both houses.
Guest 1713- Registered: 14 Mar 2016
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#31
For all the good they do yes
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#32
any one know a chap called guy forks, if any one knows one tell him theres a big job going in London. lol
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#33
Guy Forks? Didn't he co-write 'Tine after tine' with Cyndi Lauper?
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#34
nah desendant of bomber forks.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#35
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Guy Forks? Didn't he co-write 'Tine after tine' with Cyndi Lauper?
Somewhat below the belt don't you think?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#36
Heavens no. Just a little word association and very mild compared to some things on here (including on this thread).
Signatures now number well over the required 100,000 so the petition will be 'considered for debate' by parliament. Not sure what this actually means, but I cannot see anything coming of it. Incidentally, signatories in Dover are among the highest in terms of percentage of constituents.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#38
nice try, but a big fail.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#39
‘The Government is committed to ensuring that the House of Lords continues to fulfil its constitutional role as a revising and scrutinising chamber which respects the primacy of the House of Commons... the Government will also continue to work to ensure that the House of Lords remains relevant and effective by addressing issues such as its size... The Prime Minister has... agreed to continue with the restraint she has shown so far when making appointments to the House.’ (From HMG’s response to the petition.)
How do you make a non-democratic body democratic? Appoint more non-democrats, stupid.
How do you reduce the size of said non-democratic body? Appoint more non-democrats, stupid.
How do you ensure that said non-democratic body remains a ‘revising and scrutinising’ one? Pack it with non-democrats who agree with you, stupid.
Or, when in a pickle, call for Pickles.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#40
Presentation and First Reading (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Frank Field presented a Bill to abolish the House of Lords and make provision for its replacement by a Senate.
Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time on 26 October, and to be printed (Bill 230).