Lazy old bastards, get back to work!!!

[_V_]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...-productivity/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...st-rates-bank/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/pensions...-collapse-nhs/

Tory graph is raging

[SueEllen]

Torygraph can shut up and go away.

[Protagoras]

Always nice to get a mention in the Telegraph

[cojak]

[Whorty]

Behind a paywall, can't be bothered to read it ... at 52, am I an old bugger?

[SueEllen]

Behind a paywall, can't be bothered to read it ... at 52, am I an old bugger?

Yep.

Lots of more mature workers are retiring early (or if they worked for something like the NHS working in less taxing lower paid part-time jobs) because they are either childless, their children are adults or they are ill and as they have worked continuously since a young age have calculated they can afford to give up working in their professions/main roles.

It's causing a problem economically as due to demographics there isn't enough younger workers in the UK and Europe to replace them.

[PCTNN]

there isn't enough younger workers in the UK and Europe to replace them.

maybe they can come from India?

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maybe they can come from India?

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/uk...our-shortages/

TL;DR; ?

Businesses used to get cheap cheap labour from EU workers, no visa or hassles. Business wants cheapest workers possible, but getting work permits/visas is too much hassle for low paid work.

Result, Tories want to allow Indian people to arrive and work here without work permits. We are heading back to free movement of people, not with EU countries, but with India.

[Whorty]

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/uk...our-shortages/

TL;DR; ?

Businesses used to get cheap cheap labour from EU workers, no visa or hassles. Business wants cheapest workers possible, but getting work permits/visas is too much hassle for low paid work.

Result, Tories want to allow Indian people to arrive and work here without work permits. We are heading back to free movement of people, not with EU countries, but with India.

That would be cool ... visa free travel around India for 12 months ... be dusting my backpack off next year and heading down to Goa

[Whorty]

Yep.

Lots of more mature workers are retiring early (or if they worked for something like the NHS working in less taxing lower paid part-time jobs) because they are either childless, their children are adults or they are ill and as they have worked continuously since a young age have calculated they can afford to give up working in their professions/main roles.

It's causing a problem economically as due to demographics there isn't enough younger workers in the UK and Europe to replace them.

Even at 52, I'm hardly mature. I am childless, and have worked non stop 30 years. Probably keep going for a bit longer though, although like many this will almost certainly go to a 6 months on/6 months off in the next few years. Just need to get the current projects up and running and over the line and boost my CV, then it's back contracting.

I'll still be paying more tax than the average worker - in fact, I pay more tax today than the gross pay of an average worker so they can go fook off attacking us oldies. It's me and ATW alone that are keeping this country afloat!