UK Minimum wage to increase to £6.31

[Jimbuna]

Throw the peasants a few crumbs from the dinner table

The national minimum wage is to rise by 12p an hour to £6.31 for adults and by 5p to £5.03 for 18-to-20-year-olds from October, the government has announced.
Business secretary Vince Cable said the government accepted the recommendation of the Low Pay Commission.
However, although the Commission said rate for apprentices should be frozen, Mr Cable said it would rise by 3p to £2.68 an hour.
The increases are below current inflation levels

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22153007

[gimpy117]

so thats about $9.00 an hour.

At least somebody gets how impossible to survive at less than that.

oh well, somebody has to slave away for giant dividends, corporate jets, and golden parachutes to exist.

It's sad that I know FOR A FACT that an interior on some of those jets costs more than some people make in a lifetime. I mean how are we supposed to fly in our gulfstream without real wood interior, leather and flat screens? Places actually prohibit photography so their corporate clients can keep all the money they spend on aircraft extras under wraps so they can hide it under some line item budget.

[Armistead]

So long sad times
Go long bad times
We are rid of you at last
Howdy gay times
Cloudy gray times
You are now a thing of the past

{Let's all sing together for our UK friends}

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So let's sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by gimpy117

so thats about $9.00 an hour.

At least somebody gets how impossible to survive at less than that.

oh well, somebody has to slave away for giant dividends, corporate jets, and golden parachutes to exist.

It's sad that I know FOR A FACT that an interior on some of those jets costs more than some people make in a lifetime. I mean how are we supposed to fly in our gulfstream without real wood interior, leather and flat screens? Places actually prohibit photography so their corporate clients can keep all the money they spend on aircraft extras under wraps so they can hide it under some line item budget.

Actually your state is not that far off form what MIT considers to be living wage.Also if you work for a company for more than 6 months and do not receive a pay increase either you or the company are doing something wrong.

Not everyone is going to have a "golden parachute" this is true and that may not be fair but that is life.If you want that so badly become a CEO.No matter what there will always be haves and have nots things will never be equal for all it simply is not possible.You either live in a free market society where you may or may not have wealth or you live in a closed society like the USSR where you are told what you can have based on your party status.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/26077

[Oberon]

Interesting how this announcement comes about the same time as the benefit caps...almost as if they're trying to play one side against the other...not that our glorious government would do such a thing, eh?

Interesting how this announcement comes about the same time as the benefit caps...almost as if they're trying to play one side against the other...not that our glorious government would do such a thing, eh?

Do you think it is a half hearted response to people realising that most of the ****less workshy wastrels getting hit by the cap are the "strivers" not the "scroungers"?

[kranz]

Well, that's great news as I'm planing to invade you in July.
After I got my diploma almost a year ago, I was like 'I'm the king of the world'.
Being unemployed for a year changed my attitude a bit...

UK - here I come.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by kranz

Well, that's great news as I'm planing to invade you in July.
After I got my diploma almost a year ago, I was like 'I'm the king of the world'.
Being unemployed for a year changed my attitude a bit...

UK - here I come.

What sector are you going into?

[kranz]

Originally Posted by Oberon

What sector are you going into?

sector you say....

so, my current education (British and American cultures and literatures) doesn't even allow me to sweep pavements professionally. I will hopefully get my postgraduate diplomata in Business English which means that, I guess, I'll look for any translation-related, business/trade-related job. Basically, anything that involves sitting in an office.

But I know it won't happen, bcoz UK primary school kids have better English than any dumb Pole, regardless of number of schools finished/diplomas received.

In that in mind, I'll probably try to join some 'mafia', pimping streetwalkers in Baker street. (made that up - one of the few streets I have heard of )

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by kranz

sector you say....

so, my current education (British and American cultures and literatures) doesn't even allow me to sweep pavements professionally. I will hopefully get my postgraduate diplomata in Business English which means that, I guess, I'll look for any translation-related, business/trade-related job. Basically, anything that involves sitting in an office.

But I know it won't happen, bcoz UK primary school kids have better English than any dumb Pole, regardless of number of schools finished/diplomas received.

In that in mind, I'll probably try to join some 'mafia', pimping streetwalkers in Baker street. (made that up - one of the few streets I have heard of )

Try Downing Street. More upscale clientele.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kranz

Well, that's great news as I'm planing to invade you in July.
After I got my diploma almost a year ago, I was like 'I'm the king of the world'.
Being unemployed for a year changed my attitude a bit...

UK - here I come.

I was talking to an employment recruitment 'specialist' the other day and he said there was a pattern developing that showed a growing number of Polish people were returning to their country because the work, even at minimum wage levels is now considered not enough to live on after sending a little home as well as the fact jobs are beginning to dry up.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by kranz

sector you say....

so, my current education (British and American cultures and literatures) doesn't even allow me to sweep pavements professionally. I will hopefully get my postgraduate diplomata in Business English which means that, I guess, I'll look for any translation-related, business/trade-related job. Basically, anything that involves sitting in an office.

But I know it won't happen, bcoz UK primary school kids have better English than any dumb Pole, regardless of number of schools finished/diplomas received.

In that in mind, I'll probably try to join some 'mafia', pimping streetwalkers in Baker street. (made that up - one of the few streets I have heard of )

A popular area is the hospitality trade, and in regards to English, your English is better than my Polish (which consists of about three or four words).
I honestly have absolutely nothing against people from Eastern Europe coming to the UK for work, because I've seen people from the UK come into my workplace (a Hotel) and leave within a fortnight because they either can't hack it, or they find the work beneath them, or they don't have the right attitude. Someone from Eastern Europe comes in, they're polite, and hardworking and they stay. So, honestly, it's little wonder that employers prefer to hire from abroad.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I was talking to an employment recruitment 'specialist' the other day and he said there was a pattern developing that showed a growing number of Polish people were returning to their country because the work, even at minimum wage levels is now considered not enough to live on after sending a little home as well as the fact jobs are beginning to dry up.

Can't say I've noticed the trend much here, Jim. Not yet anyway.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Can't say I've noticed the trend much here, Jim. Not yet anyway.

Nor me which is why I referred to my source as a so called 'specialist'.

[kranz]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Try Downing Street. More upscale clientele.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

jobs are beginning to dry up.

I heard that, too.
I also heard that Scotland is a good place to find something. Dunno, I haven't decided for sure, yet.

A friend of mine works in London as a PHP programmer. He said that except for the weather, the working hours and the cultural hodgepodge, it is OK