Minimum wage and Brexit

sangie595

spadoosh wrote: »

How can you possibly think like that?....

Why is everyone (to one side) expecting that we're all about to act like cavemen?

Nobody said that we expect everyone to act like cavemen. But actually, it is really easy to think "like that" when it comes to employers. If they wanted to all be great employers and value their workers and their safety, then we wouldn't need any rules at all, whoever made them. We make rules because they aren't trusted to do these things themselves. And the rise of zero hour contracts is a fine example of why they shouldn't be trusted to do them! Sadly, our current government are in favour of diminishing employees rights.

And it is wildly naive to think that if we don't like something, we just go out and vote against it. For starters, we don't get votes on individual matters. And, as Scotland has found out, sometimes our opinion may be that we don't like something, but we are getting it anyway. After all, there's pretty much a consensus now that the treatment of people with disabilities is appalling. I don't see the government caring very much for our views on that issue. Or on needing two years employment before we get basic protections against unfair treatment.

I don't actually subscribe to the idea that Europe care about us any more than the government does. If you actually read what I had to say, I did not say which way i voted, and nothing in the text indicates which way i voted. That information is irrelevant now. What I was suggesting is that we are entering hard times in the economy, and there doesn't appear to be any really major dispute about that at any level, or on either "side". And when there are hard times, it is not the employers who pay for them. It is the workers.