It's becoming the blight of the UK too nowadays. Work, and typically hard, shitty work that with little chance of opportunity or betterment (can't afford to save or take time out for extra education/training etc) is so badly paid that you cannot afford to live. A full-time job or 20hrs plus job should ALWAYS pay enough to provide the necessities of life without worry plus a little extra for savings/the odd luxury/pension top-ups etc. Anything less is basically ye olde serfdom. It's just plain wrong. I don't buy the crap about national debt/austerity being a good reason for cutting wages for already low paid workers. Nooooo can't tax the rich, they won't keep their money in the country anymore....ummm don't they all stash their cash in tax-havens already???
There is the scandal here of hundreds of thousands of jobs being zero-hours contracts where if you are not needed at work you just don't get paid. You might only be needed for an hour or if the local branch is trying to save money to look good for management you might have to do extra free overtime while other employees stay home on zero wages even when they are needed!
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Date: 2013-08-18 12:29 pm (UTC)There is the scandal here of hundreds of thousands of jobs being zero-hours contracts where if you are not needed at work you just don't get paid. You might only be needed for an hour or if the local branch is trying to save money to look good for management you might have to do extra free overtime while other employees stay home on zero wages even when they are needed!