Living Wage

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:05 pm

How does a company agreeing to pay the 'The Living Wage' get to have an item on the evening News to them selves ?

Is it part of some clever advertising on behalf of the company, or is it a 'good feel' story to counteract the current 'working tax credit' story?

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 7:37 am

The thing is that the supposed £9.50 minimum / living wage isn't due to take effect until 2020 anyway. By which time inflation will have risen so high that £9.50 probably won't be worth as much as £6.50 now.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:10 am

I never got the part about it starting in 2020,now it makes some sort of sense.

It irritates me how the powers that be can have a recommended minimum wage, with focus on the 'wage' and not earnings or bonus, but fail to have a maximum wage.

If the principle is right for the low end on,why not the obscenity the other end ?

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 10:55 am

For the Tories to have had any credibility with their "Living" Wage (a rebranding of Labour's Minimum Wage), when they said £9.50 an hour, they should have made it immediately implementable or, say, as of the New Year. Stating that's what they are aiming for (not what it WILL be) by 2020 is just a con, getting their electioneering ready in time for the next election (because 2020 is, coincidentally, when the next election will be).

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 1:02 am

Hopefully by then people will have been politicised enough to realise politics is something thgey need to be interested in.