£15/hour

[Jack.P]

Anyway with hand cutting even if you do get bugger all like I did (too focused on cutting to spec and keeping site tidy and not maximising product output ) then it’s good for learning stuff you wouldn’t otherwise 

[eggsarascal]

Is anyone going to answer the original question, or are we all focused on £15/hour?

[Mark Bolam]

It’s obviously acceptable because people are paying it.

[eggsarascal]

No choice ya mean.

[Jack.P]

3 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

No choice ya mean.

Still about 120 day rate.many factors to think about in this .like how hard the jobs are and what’s provided 

[eggsarascal]

5 minutes ago, Jack.P said:

Still about 120 day rate.many factors to think about in this .like how hard the jobs are and what’s provided 

At the top end you'd be paying a weeks wages each month before tax to rent a room with a shared kitchen and bathroom.

[Mark Bolam]

14 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

No choice ya mean.

Yup.

[Mark Bolam]

The problem is if you pay £15/hr at the bottom end, it spirals upwards pretty quickly, and the system crashes.

[eggsarascal]

What we should do is pay people the minimum wage so the rest of us can top up those people with UC, business owners are on a winner, oh hang on.

[Peasgood]

9 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

Back in the yard i pay lads £10 a IBC cage for splitting firewood one lad will do 2 + cages an hour and the other lad ( if he turns up ) when he gets there he just wants to arse about on his phone and struggles to do one an hour, he then complains that he has worked hard and he only got £40 for the day !! and the other lad gets £140, should i subsidise him the other £100 ? and me loose out NO he will just have to learn that in life you sometimes have to put some effort in to get the reward !! Some people will never understand how things work with in business, and the older i get the more i think some of the younger lads are just not worth entertaining,

The minimum wage laws say you must top up the wastrels pay to minimum wage. Of course you won't so you sack the guy if it comes to it, now instead of the £40 he has nothing.

This is one of the faults of a minimum wage system, it makes an extra section of society unemployable. The section that won't even try to get the £40 are already unemployable or work for the government.