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Re: National Minimum Wage « Reply #10 Posted: 18 November 2011 at 11:38 PM »
I dont see at all why having an apprentice or training wage equals being treated badly and of course they dont have to go together and shouldnt If a company doesnt treat their young workers right they probably wont treat anyone right
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Re: National Minimum Wage « Reply #11 Posted: 20 November 2011 at 04:21 PM »
Quote from: robbie2010 on 18 November 2011 at 10:23 AM
On the 'Tuttles eyesore' topic on this site, one poster placed a historic buildings link (WDC). I noted with interest that this article also gave a link to job vacancies at both WDC and Suffolk Coastal offices. One in particular was for an HR (Human Resources) 'Apprentice'.
(What was once described, to my mind, as an Office Junior).  The job - 37 hours per week is up for grabs at a wage of £97.50 week!! Apparently this LOW wage ( around £2.60 per hour) is the recommended minimum wage for an apprentice under the age of 19!!! The job description is quite detailed and by being so I would have thought it was worth far more than the pittance offered. Is this one way of reducing council costs - by employing slave labour? I don't think they will have many takers!!!
For interests sake the National Minimum wages, (Oct 2011), are:-
£6.08 per hour for over 21 years old
£4.98 per hour for 18 to 20 year olds
£3.68 per hour for 16 to 17 year olds
£2.60  per hour for apprentices under 19 years old
I think the job described above should be in the top three categories at least.

Wow!  I don't think there should be a difference in the wages based on age.  To me, a minimum wage should be the same for anyone of any age.
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Re: National Minimum Wage « Reply #12 Posted: 22 November 2011 at 08:09 AM »
Wouldn't be better if people were to work for free? Oh! Guess what? They do.

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Re: National Minimum Wage « Reply #13 Posted: 22 November 2011 at 08:21 AM »
The style of writing is catching  evil6
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Re: National Minimum Wage « Reply #14 Posted: 22 November 2011 at 05:26 PM »
Perhaps we should follow the same "tar with the same brush" trend and state that all workers are lazy overpaid trouble-makers?
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Re: National Minimum Wage « Reply #15 Posted: 22 November 2011 at 06:32 PM »
Quote from: Karen on 20 November 2011 at 04:21 PM
Wow!  I don't think there should be a difference in the wages based on age.  To me, a minimum wage should be the same for anyone of any age.

Karen's right.  If it's the same job, done to the same standards, it's indefensible to penalise someone on grounds of age - just as it is on grouds of gender.

It may be defensible to pay a younger person less IF they're slower, or IF they work to a lower standard.  But if they're not it's hardly fair to pay them less just because they MIGHT still live at home with mum & dad.
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Re: National Minimum Wage « Reply #16 Posted: 22 November 2011 at 06:49 PM »
When did this complex age pricing come in? I dont remember it being like that before
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Re: National Minimum Wage « Reply #17 Posted: 22 November 2011 at 10:34 PM »
 >:(It is odd how some people think all workers are employed as slave labour & all bosses are receiving this huge executive type salary, most private companies at this present time are struggling to keep there staff in work, the employers suffer along with there employees when times are difficult & prosper when order books are full & my experience is that very few employers treat there work force badly.
I will agree that executive's salaries that are being paid to a huge number of people is obscene to say the least and some thing must be done about it. It is rife in the great national companies, it is the same in Government & the public sector, also trade unions are not exsempt & it comes along way down the scale of employment which makes for a great divide between the haves & have nots or them & us.   Angry   
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