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Depends. Does JSA=NMW? If JSA is less then Tesco are exploiting the unemployed. If the job exists then it must be covered by NMW and should be advertised as such.
Depends. Does JSA=NMW? If JSA is less then Tesco are exploiting the unemployed. If the job exists then it must be covered by NMW and should be advertised as such.
That is what the left always argue when they are challenged about employment laws. Vast amounts of red tape can be removed without society being enslaved.
This is old kak. Most of today's production cost has to do with high cost of fuel, high cost of credit, middle-management bureaucracy, not with employment laws.
That is what the left always argue when they are challenged about employment laws. Vast amounts of red tape can be removed without society being enslaved.
I remember in my very first employer (in software development).
After many years i began to hate the place. I was desperate to get out, i tried to open up my own dog poo cleaning company (seriously). Offering a service to rid people's back yards for the poo that their dogs left. I even managed to post leaflets through all the letterboxes in 3 or 4 streets.
I'm now so glad that no one took me up on my services!!
You think? Mr DynoRod charges 100 notes to push a disc on the end of a rubber pipe down your drain. Probably 2 mins work in most cases.
I remember in my very first employer (in software development).
After many years i began to hate the place. I was desperate to get out, i tried to open up my own dog poo cleaning company (seriously). Offering a service to rid people's back yards for the poo that their dogs left. I even managed to post leaflets through all the letterboxes in 3 or 4 streets.
I'm now so glad that no one took me up on my services!!
Yep, people get a real sense of satisfaction out of being told to pick up dog turds or starve; and my local rag's job ads are full of "Must have experience of picking up dog turds" caveats
Are you saying it is therefore better for people not to work?
In 1995, I got a contract away from home, and got lodgings in the friend of a friend's house. My landlord was on benefits and had been for three years, ever since his business collapsed. He was a qualified accountant, but at the age of 55, couldn't find work. He was 58 by the time I stay with them, and he was resigned to never working again.
I stayed with them for 6 months. During which time, we had to fight with the benefits office to show that I wasn't part of the household, so my earnings were irrelevant to the family's benefit entitlement (including council tax benefit), and that to reduce their benefits by the exact amount of rent I was paying was moronic and against the rules. But also during this time, he took inspiration from the idea of contracting.
He'd created and conducted some internal training courses for his emplyoer in the past, so we concentrated on that. He developed training courses in Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and then started getting contracts. It did take a few months to get the first one, but after that he never looked back.
What was profoundly irritating was that there was me, actively working to get this guy back into the workplace, yet the whole benefit system was geared against it. They offered him no help whatsover - just kept trying to cut his benefits.
In the Eighties a mate of mine was a street sweeper. He reckoned the worst thing was having to scrape up a flat cat on a hot summer day - and then wheel it around under his nose in the barrow for the remainder of his shift
he got my job.
i bet he thought the sun shone out of his fkng @rse
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