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| | Please find attached the Official Minimum Wage Consultation Document from C & E. Please take time to go through the document and comment directly to C & E as discussed.
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| | Anybody for £6 per hour ??? |
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| | Chris How is the tourism trade proposing to manage the idiosyncracies of lodgings, transport and food that often form part of your packages?
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| | Ah - the other wonderful benifits of working in our industry !! Accommodation - I belive that Jersey and the UK provide a weekly allocation for food and lodging which is offset against the hourly rate set. Uniforms provided - not sure if this would be offset Tips - a ruling in the UK 3 months ago allows for tips to be taken into account on hourly rate also - I presume that these tips would have to appear as part of a wage slip and correwct taxes paid |
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Whether rightly or wrongly, I find it difficult to understand the need for a minimum wage. The consultation, set up, enforcement etc will be a costly excersise, to enforce a regulation that is governed already by market forces. If there are those people who do not wish to work for a particular salary, then that is their perogative. |
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| | I think you right, there will be a benefit for a few but I would be very interested to see the cost of this re states expenditure |
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| Minimum Wage
Well its quite interesting to see that in the U.K it has been broken down into three age categories this makes a lot of sense .Unfortunately they added minimum time off too.
As at 1 Nov 2007 it is
Aged 22 and over £5.52 per hour
18 to 21 £4.60 per hour
16 to 17 year old £3.40 per hour
Minimum annual leave has been increased from 20 days to 24 and as from 1 April 2009 will increase to28 days
Don't really know if we need a minimum wage in Guernsey we have full employment and there are more jobs chasing people then people chasing jobs.Consequently anyone feeling under paid or undervalued usually moves to a better paid position.
But if we ,as an Island,proceed and introduce this much unneeded Red tape then I hope it takes things like apprentices,Tips(15-20% in USA)subsidized food and accommodation into account.I don't really see this helping growth though which I thought the States were going for with the zero ten.Or is it really a Pensions black hole we are being asked to fill like Jersey ? |
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| | The holiday entitlement is more worrying than a minimum wage and reflects the labour government selling its sole to the unions years ago. Does anybody know if the holidays include bank holidays or are they on top of the allocation. |
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Just a further thought if NMW is successful.
A further cost to our businesses will be those members of staff that are currently in a supervisory position, that might, at present be hanging just over the potential NMW rates. These members of the team will then require incremental increases over and above the NMW, and then, those above them will require theirs. An upward spiral, that might even mean that I could get a few quid out of this!!
Sounds like going out for dinner might just get quite expensive!! |
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| Still, we havn't factored in the increased wage cost of the Insurance contributions etc. yet which will increase employer costs anyhow. By the time that tax breaks on mortgages have been reduced I might have to send the Ferrari back never mind the boat.
I can feel inflation coming on, bloody glad I have my coffee black or that would be the last straw !!
Minimum wage, waste of time but watch out for holiday entitlement, you only have to look at our French friends 35 hour week, massive holiday entitlement but huge tax. And no money to spend when your not working anyway.
Funny how you fid lots of French wiaters here, why dont they work at home with the minium wage and 35 hour weeks ?
Thats got to be the answer hasn't it ? - just look at what the USSR achieved, then again perhaps not!
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