MSE News: Living Wage set to rise next year

tomtontom

RMS2 wrote: »

Perhaps if the government made all the tax haven companies like, ebay, Google Starbucks et al, pay their fair share of tax, we could start to afford things.




Perhaps all those well known people had all the loopholes closed down (including the politicians) so that they paid tax, we could afford things.




As it is, only the poor pay tax and the rich pay people to avoid it. It never used to be this way before globalisation.

And what about all the small businesses? These are the ones that would be most impacted by the change.

gettingready

Raisinng/lowering NME or "living wage" - this will not change the fact that there are jobs that pay the absolute minimum as those jobs do not need any special skill/qualifications/experience.

If one wants to earn more money - one has to aim for better jobs and not demand that very simple jobs are paid at higher rate. That is simply not going to happen as all other rates would need to go up and then prices of abosultely everything will go back and then AGAIN the situation will be exactly as it is now.

gettingready

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

It isn't enough though is it.
Minimum wage should be set at at least £10 per hour, that will save people having to go onto benefits to top up their wages

Oh dear.......


What will save people "having to go onto benefits" is common sense and a bit of effort on their part - yeah, I know.. I am gonna get killed here now

wacko911

Hmm, I. think Russell Brand expains this well....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PObwtaKXZYY&list=UUswH8ovgUp5Bdg-0_JTYFNw

Podge52

gettingready wrote: »

Oh dear.......


What will save people "having to go onto benefits" is common sense and a bit of effort on their part - yeah, I know.. I am gonna get killed here now

I won't kill you:)

But...

There will always be the need for low skilled workers, if by some miracle all the non skilled were to become skilled we would have skilled workers working for minimum wage.

I can't believe you believe all workers can can lift themselves out of minimum wage by effort and common sense.

gettingready

Podge52 wrote: »

I won't kill you:)

But...

There will always be the need for low skilled workers,

Corect - and the wages/rate per hour reflects that low skill/no skills. Raising that wont help anyone in the long term

Pincher

Gangmasters and even slave masters, who force dispossessed people to work for nothing will not take the blindest bit of notice.


All this will do is shift the income support burden from the state to the law abiding businesses. The smaller businesses that were barely trading could simply go under, but no subsidies for them, I suppose?