The TUC has decided to call for a £15 minimum wage. We assume that it’s all because the Americans have had that Fight for $15. The TUC seeming not to know that $15 is a different sum from £15.
More importantly, $15 an hour in a country where the median wage is $30 (-ish) is very different from £15 where the median wage is £13.57. That second is moving into Lake Woebegon territory, where all our children are above average.
The TUC has decided to call for a £15 minimum wage. We assume that it’s all because the Americans have had that Fight for $15. The TUC seeming not to know that $15 is a different sum from £15.
Yarp. They’ve seen it on Twitter and copied the Septics, because they’re retards. £15 an hour just means lots (more) cleaners being paid less than that under the table, and a lot fewer jobs for graduates.
The only group likely to see more job offers as a result of a UK minimum wage of £15 are Indians. UK plc is already balls deep in offshoring back office and technical functions (with shitty results, but nobody in C-suite cares about that), and now the TUC wants to help Rishi’s wife make her next billion at the expense of people who live here.
Good times.
I don’t think these people have a clue what they’re asking for. The higher the cost of labour, the greater incentive to automate.
There are techie tools to automate more and more of the physical and clerical drudgery. The unskilled will have fewer and fewer opportunities to make themselves useful.
@Geoffers
I am all for automation if the alternative is incompetent customer service agents
If companies performed their tasks with a modicum of consistency and competence and had an effective web presence there would be virtually no need for customer service
0.01p-14.99p becomes the new price range for which it is illegal for consenting adults to exchange money for an hour’s labour.
Not going to work out well.
Might just as well double down and hire someone who’s a con and in the UK illegally.
Just issue New British Pounds, at 50p = 1 NBP.
Suddenly everyone earns £15.
Problem solved.
What we really need is to encourage more journalists and lawyers to come to the UK and make it possible for them to work / operate here from the day they arrive. It is only when these professions feel their own livelihoods to be at risk that there will be any possibility of a clamour for change.