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Not quite. Due to them being "reliant on underpaid, undocumented foreign seasonal workers" , they can't look after all the plants. Either the plants die or they give them away.
Quite possibly they were paying below NMW under the table based on such places I've known
Quite possibly they were paying below NMW under the table based on such places I've known
The pay rates are on the website. Above NMW, but customers want cheap products, so either lower paid staff or higher prices to customers.
Unfortunately the GBeebies generation prefer to blame on a fact-free basis.
The pay rates are on the website. Above NMW, but customers want cheap products, so either lower paid staff or higher prices to customers.
Unfortunately the GBeebies generation prefer to blame on a fact-free basis.
or are just sadly acquainted with the kind of tricks cheap employers play. From having to be there 30 minutes late unpaid for security purposes.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday said Apple Inc must pay more than 12,000 retail workers in California for time they spent going through security screenings at the end of their shifts.
or expecting employees to purchase safety equipment and short changed on loo breaks.
It's been a black hole where the lack of any checks upon its power has left a sense that everything is pared to the absolute bone – from the cheapest of the cheap plastic safety boots, which most long-term employees seem to spend their own money replacing with something they can walk in, to the sack-you-if-you're-sick policy, to the 15-minute break that starts wherever you happen to be in the warehouse. On my third morning, at my lowest point, when my energy has run out and my spirits are low, it takes me six minutes to walk to the airport-style scanners, where I spend a minute being frisked. I queue a minute for the loos, get a banana out of my locker, sit down for 30 seconds, and then I get up and walk the six minutes back to my station.
or maybe insisting employees pay for mandatory accomodation.
Each week S&A Produce, which is one of just nine operators of the Saws scheme appointed by the Government, deducts £31.22 for accommodation, which comprises either caravans or temporary "pods". The fruit pickers are also charged £2.75 a week for "entertainment", including internet access which some employees said rarely worked. Photographs of the computers handed to The Independent show that many have floppy disk drives, suggesting that they are at least seven years old.
The company also charges a "one-off" fee of £35 for "pastoral care", which includes helping employees make appointments with doctors or dentists and providing transport.
there a few minutes googling got some facts you should try it.
Maybe we just know the facts better than some others?
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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