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Polish to go on strike.
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Thrugelmir wrote: »Does Italy have a minimum wage?
No they don't have it. They have a minimum pensions though
or minimum welfare which is around 430EUR a month.
Though they have recently introduced some 'work vouchers' which can be used to employ workers on a casual basis.
So instead of doing the payroll, tax withholding, blah blah the worker is paid with the voucher and it's 10EUR/1 hour.
When the voucher is exchanged, tax will be withheld then.
Italy had/has a huge problem with cash in hand...0 -
I'd like to make pizzas.... wonder if Dominos are hiring. I hate their pizzas, so no risk of me getting fat by eating the ones that go wrong
Edit: Nope. No jobs with them within 200 miles....0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I'd like to make pizzas.... wonder if Dominos are hiring. I hate their pizzas, so no risk of me getting fat by eating the ones that go wrong
y'know, I had a quick look at pizza makers stats, and those Italians are demanding around 3600EUR/2500GBP a month!
Pizza school here we come 0 -
remorseless wrote: »y'know, I had a quick look at pizza makers stats, and those Italians are demanding around 3600EUR/2500GBP a month!
Pizza school here we come
Looking at the Dominos site they want "happy clappy, smiling, people".. not my scene. Customer facing isn't my forte. I'm more of a back room person. I could happily turn out 100% company compliant, exact, precise and perfect pizzas every time.... but I've no idea how I'd understand the customers as I can't hear very well in a noisy environment and struggle to process verbal information - so I'd get a bit stuck, confused and wrong-footed.
I think pizza in Italy would involve tossing the dough into the air and catching it - I'd just end up making dough hats 0 -
The Polish workers in the UK are being urged to strike in order to show their affects on the UK economy.
I say 'Go ahead and strike, you will find that in your absence, we have replaced you with a Bulgarian/Latvian/Romanian/Hungarian (delete as applicable).'
Your source is.....Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
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PasturesNew wrote: »I don't know. That would be job/area specific. In some areas/jobs it's because they see their trip to the UK as a "young person's 5 year plan to live in shared houses and save all their money and go home to buy a house for cash" -v- a British person's need to build a life/future ... so they'd come over as "keener" and more reliable when taken on in jobs with no future.
Actually, I wouldn't say this is true. If you knew the Poles as a nation, you would realise that the have a very strong work ethic wherever they work. This applies as much to those Poles who were political exiles to Britain at the end of the Second World War and their children, as to those who are often from 'village/small town backgrounds' and who come to Britain today.
They come over here nowadays because the Polish economy is still in rather a mess and there are relatively few jobs, and because of the favourable benefit system in Britain, courtesy of British taxpayers, which they can continue to take advantage of when they return to Poland – something that seems absurd to me.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »They don't get it. While some are doing "important/valuable" jobs, the majority will be doing jobs that, if they weren't around, would be done by somebody else - and somebody else could live in the house they're occupying.
Same for anybody moving to a new area....
They've just been hoodwinked by somebody with an agenda.
What a deep insight into the lives of immigrants you have. Gathered during many years of personal experience and anecdote, I imagine?PasturesNew wrote: »I don't know. That would be job/area specific. In some areas/jobs it's because they see their trip to the UK as a "young person's 5 year plan to live in shared houses and save all their money and go home to buy a house for cash" -v- a British person's need to build a life/future ... so they'd come over as "keener" and more reliable when taken on in jobs with no future.
Some companies DO have specific language agendas in their recruitment - e.g. where jobs aren't even advertised in the UK, but are advertised in other countries, with the 'agency' then bringing the people here and finding them housing/transport to get to/from the jobs.
Others might be trained in stuff that isn't available to Brits to be trained in as workers here didn't have access to the courses, nor the money to go on them.
Each job will have a different reason why the non-local is doing it.
It's always the last 6 people that jumped on the boat right before it tipped over and everybody drowned that are blamed. Not those who queued quietly for an hour, in line and boarded/sat down sedately.
Or maybe not. :rotfl:PasturesNew wrote: »I've never been abroad, never come into contact with furreners and will probably never go abroad.Don't blame me, I voted Remain.0
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