Employers expecting people to work for £6.50 an hour!!

Proppo

I do wonder how people survive on that wage. After hearing that for first time buyers, we need to save an average of £37,000 to be able to get a mortgage. Which, atleast for me is practically impossible. With food costs, transport costs etc rising daily, it's amazing people manage to live at all.

Oldernotwiser

You have obviously never heard of tax credits!

Googlewhacker

markbass wrote: »

If i couldn't pay my employees a livable wage wouldn't start a business.

Well minimum wage is a liveable wage, maybe you need to adjust your expectations in terms of living. I'm not saying it is a great way of living but it is a way of life.

markbass

sh1305 wrote: »

It's more than minimum wage - so what's the problem?

You on that sort of money then? many people just can't live on that money, with bills rent or mortgage, food, car...whatever...6 to 7 quid an hour makes it impossible, this country is a disgrace, the minimum wage should be close to 8 quid an hour, and businesses can't handle it then go out of business.

It sickens me the the amount of unscrupulous employers out there willing to take advantage of the high unemployment.

Googlewhacker

markbass wrote: »

You on that sort of money then? many people just can't live on that money, with bills rent or mortgage, food, car...whatever...6 to 7 quid an hour makes it impossible, this country is a disgrace, the minimum wage should be close to 8 quid an hour, and businesses can't handle it then go out of business.

It sickens me the the amount of unscrupulous employers out there willing to take advantage of the high unemployment.

Nice, so stick minimum wage upto a wage that is not sustainable, the cost of living goes up to compensate, businesses go out of business and more people become unemployed and living of the state so taxes go up, inflation starts to increase....

You've not really thought this through, if you are not happy earning £6-7 an hour then I suggest you train yourself up more, you look at running your own business and furthering yourself.....until then re-adjust your living!

paulwf

I can see both sides of it...

On the one hand I remember a dozen or so years ago before min wage when basic jobs were just over £3 p/h. So some wages have doubled in that time.

On the other hand some retail chains want store managers for around £14K a year which is a heck of a lot of responsibility and sheer hard work for £7 p/h.

Googlewhacker

paulwf wrote: »

I can see both sides of it...

On the one hand I remember a dozen or so years ago before min wage when basic jobs were just over £3 p/h. So some wages have doubled in that time.

On the other hand some retail chains want store managers for around £14K a year which is a heck of a lot of responsibility and sheer hard work for £7 p/h.

NMW is a great thing and is there for areason, it is a liveable wage but it may not mean that people can have a car, can have Sky TV, can have a mobile, can have a leather suite etc, these are all luxuries not neccessities

markbass

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

You have obviously never heard of tax credits!

That just about sums this country up!!

People should expect to live their lives without bloody handouts when they work all week!!

There are people actually better off out of work financial wise and that sucks!

I saw advertised 3 or 4 jobs the other month that were offering approx £260 a week, driving jobs all of which claimed the hours would be 40 a week but i noticed all had extraordinarily long delivery routes of 100-150 miles from base, now if you get caught in traffic or have a round that See's you delivering to the outskirts of those delivery boundaries, then theres every chance that you could be working 12-14 hours that day, you do that a few times a week then calculate the wage your actually getting per hour...and this is reality, employers are giving fixed amounts per week knowing damn well the amount of hours required to do the job amount to far more than they advertise the job at because they know people out there are that desperate, it stinks!!

katiejones

markbass wrote: »

Really i heard the likes of asda and tesco...etc pay half decent wages to their employees, close to £8 an hour...although lets be honest thats not great but livable.

Mr T employee here - nowhere near £8 ph

penelopedee_2

Right now DH would settle for £6 an hour because its £6 more per hour than he gets in benefits since his boss forgot to pay them and then made them redundant without any pay off.