New Posts For Thread: National minimum wage increasehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30837363/national-minimum-wage-increasejust been looking at the history on the minimum wage, can't believe in the early 00's when I was still of school age that the minumum wage was just £3.70 a hour!htf did people survive working on that?!think lidle and co are over a tenner,so serve your time for 4 years ,learn your trade get your papers and throw them in the bin and go stack shelves and earn more money,welcome to the uk 2017https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30837363/national-minimum-wage-increase?post_id=551565081#551565081think lidle and co are over a tenner,so serve your time for 4 years ,learn your trade get your papers and throw them in the bin and go stack shelves and earn more money,welcome to the uk 2017Mon, 03 Apr 2017 08:39:51 -0500i,m a welder and theres plenty of firms advertising jobs at £8 an hr ,i was earning that 25 yrs ago,they no they,ll get a semi skilled chancer from eastern europe to work for 8 quid and employers are prepared to hold their nose cross their fingers ahttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30837363/national-minimum-wage-increase?post_id=551565065#551565065i,m a welder and theres plenty of firms advertising jobs at £8 an hr ,i was earning that 25 yrs ago,they no they,ll get a semi skilled chancer from eastern europe to work for 8 quid and employers are prepared to hold their nose cross their fingers aMon, 03 Apr 2017 08:38:02 -0500Plenty of people and jobs only worth the minimum wage.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30837363/national-minimum-wage-increase?post_id=551565051#551565051Plenty of people and jobs only worth the minimum wage.Mon, 03 Apr 2017 08:36:00 -0500£3.70 - When the minimum wage was brought in it was set low to get it past the corporations. Also, don't forget about inflation.£7.50 an hour * 40 hours * 52 weeks = £15,600.Do people work 40 hours anymore?A lot of people aren't getting any pay rhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30837363/national-minimum-wage-increase?post_id=551563839#551563839£3.70 - When the minimum wage was brought in it was set low to get it past the corporations. Also, don't forget about inflation.£7.50 an hour * 40 hours * 52 weeks = £15,600.Do people work 40 hours anymore?A lot of people aren't getting any pay rMon, 03 Apr 2017 04:17:31 -0500Plenty of people work for less than the minimum wage, they are those who have no choice but to be self employed and work zero hours contract jobs where all the expenses of the job is passed on to them.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30837363/national-minimum-wage-increase?post_id=551563825#551563825Plenty of people work for less than the minimum wage, they are those who have no choice but to be self employed and work zero hours contract jobs where all the expenses of the job is passed on to them.Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:05:14 -0500Supermarkets (and lots of other companies) would still be paying £3.70 now if they had a choicehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30837363/national-minimum-wage-increase?post_id=551563527#551563527Supermarkets (and lots of other companies) would still be paying £3.70 now if they had a choiceMon, 03 Apr 2017 00:11:17 -0500when we left the gold standard our wages have been pinned to nothing. If we were really getting the right wages you'd freak out. it would be astronomical.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30837363/national-minimum-wage-increase?post_id=551562395#551562395when we left the gold standard our wages have been pinned to nothing. If we were really getting the right wages you'd freak out. it would be astronomical.Sun, 02 Apr 2017 19:11:41 -0500just been looking at the history on the minimum wage, can't believe in the early 00's when I was still of school age that the minumum wage was just £3.70 a hour!htf did people survive working on that?!https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30837363/national-minimum-wage-increase?post_id=551562115#551562115just been looking at the history on the minimum wage, can't believe in the early 00's when I was still of school age that the minumum wage was just £3.70 a hour!htf did people survive working on that?!Sun, 02 Apr 2017 18:08:50 -0500