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.

[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

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.

oh darn. I'll have to re-arrange my list of things to just become

1. C.E.O
2. Superman
3. Astronaut
4. Fighter Pilot
5. King Of The World

any suggestions on my revision? I'm taking Things just happening 1010, and luck / the right place and time 3200 next semester so I think that should work