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09 Jul 15
19:05
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I am paid £11.13 per hour.
My work a basic 40 hours per week 8:30 - 17:00 Monday- Friday.
Often i am required to work on a different site but still expected to be on site for 8:30. The company i work for do not pay any travel for the first half an hour travel either way. I leave my house at 7:30 and arrive at site at 8:30. So i am paid travel between 8:00 - 8:30 at the flat rate of £11.13.
£11.13 x 0.5hrs = £5.56
Minus
Income tax @ 20%
National Insurance @ 12%
£5.56 * 32% = £1.78
£5.56 - £1.78 = £3.78
Leave just enough for a Mcdonald's Bacon Roll and Orange Juice
My work a basic 40 hours per week 8:30 - 17:00 Monday- Friday.
Often i am required to work on a different site but still expected to be on site for 8:30. The company i work for do not pay any travel for the first half an hour travel either way. I leave my house at 7:30 and arrive at site at 8:30. So i am paid travel between 8:00 - 8:30 at the flat rate of £11.13.
£11.13 x 0.5hrs = £5.56
Minus
Income tax @ 20%
National Insurance @ 12%
£5.56 * 32% = £1.78
£5.56 - £1.78 = £3.78
Leave just enough for a Mcdonald's Bacon Roll and Orange Juice
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Your wages should be segemented into various sections...
one for food, one for rent, one for travel....etc.
If travel goes up by 5% then the related segment should increase to the same level to counteract any short fall...
Not the usual horsesh2t of a 'cross the board' 3 percent wage increase... but you get taxed up the @rse, and getting hit on all the travel bills that eating up all your hard earned green.
This should go someway to prevent indirect modern day slavery IMVHO.
one for food, one for rent, one for travel....etc.
If travel goes up by 5% then the related segment should increase to the same level to counteract any short fall...
Not the usual horsesh2t of a 'cross the board' 3 percent wage increase... but you get taxed up the @rse, and getting hit on all the travel bills that eating up all your hard earned green.
This should go someway to prevent indirect modern day slavery IMVHO.
"Leave just enough for a Mcdonald's Bacon Roll and Orange Juice "
Goodness me. You don't know you're born.
"Goodness me. You don't know you're born.
FECKING £3.78 for an hours travel/work. The minimum wage is double that!
If you were "poor" why don't you make your own sandwich and have a cup of tea, like normal people do?
You're not getting a lot of sympathy here are you, WHP? 
His calculations take into account absolutely nothing of the personal allowance, and most of us have to commute to work at least some distance. Even I do a short distance, and I'm the queens butler and sleep at the end of her bed in a basket.
£204 is your weekly allowance before tax and you pay no NI on under £154.
So for the first 13.84 hours of your weeks work you keep all £154
So for the first 13.84 hours of your weeks work you keep all £154
I think that WHP is secretly happy and made up because of the budget.
Strange days indeed when it's the Tory party that represents the working man (and women for the pedants)
Strange days indeed when it's the Tory party that represents the working man (and women for the pedants)
i dont approve of people sleeping in the queens basket in the workplace
You have confused moderate pay with slavery. I think you would find the latter much more 'exciting'.
petrol prices have gone down but bus fares continue to go up 
bus fares will always rise , £1.50 in my area no matter if one stop or 20 , its £1.50 to get on and no toilet
I work for the Royal Mail as a wagon driver, within the company we are the only ones that don't get paid when on a meal relief. Due to the drivers time directive I must have an hour and a half in breaks in a 12 hour shift. So most weeks I am down 7.5 hours pay.
You do on shift work, that's why you only get 30 minutes for an 8 hour shift at most, but not all places.
No wonder the country is in the state it's in. Even the workers getting paid to do feck all. 
always calculate your salary on your take home pay
have you ever asked : what are you actually worth to your company?
work it thru- do you generate significant profits ?
if so and you are not rewarded - do something about it
if not- keep stum m8 !
have you ever asked : what are you actually worth to your company?
work it thru- do you generate significant profits ?
if so and you are not rewarded - do something about it
if not- keep stum m8 !
Anyway dont worry - most jobs will soon be redundant
i'll start another fred on this
i'll start another fred on this
You can dress it up as much as you want.. Minimum wage, living wage, 'just enough for McDonalds' wage.
It means jack sh1t if the travel, food and fuel go up more than your annual pay rise.
At the end of the day you're better off doing f*ck all and playing the system...Like the work shy, the MP's fiddling the expensives or the rest of the 'fat cat' tax-evaders in this god forsaken country.
It means jack sh1t if the travel, food and fuel go up more than your annual pay rise.
At the end of the day you're better off doing f*ck all and playing the system...Like the work shy, the MP's fiddling the expensives or the rest of the 'fat cat' tax-evaders in this god forsaken country.
If youd be better off unemployed you should get a new job imo
The Tories have every angle covered. No more mollycoddling the unemployed. 
our middle eastern friends do quite well out of slavery and always have done
do you think they will apologise for it
I already have
do you think they will apologise for it
I already have
my mistake - I forgot - they are all coming here aren't they
apologies
apologies
@akbula I am still responsible for the security of the wagon and mail even when I am on a break off a royal mail site. So I should be paid
You shouldn't be responsible for your wagon if you have to take your meal break away from it, which I thought was the law for HGVs.
Apparently not when you work for the Royal Mail.
Your supposed to change seats, in the driving seat at work in the passenger seat on a break or recreational activities.
This also why drivers are forced to tramp, apparently living in the wagon all week is not at work
Your supposed to change seats, in the driving seat at work in the passenger seat on a break or recreational activities.
This also why drivers are forced to tramp, apparently living in the wagon all week is not at work
macarony • July 13, 2015 6:27 PM BST
@akbula I am still responsible for the security of the wagon and mail even when I am on a break off a royal mail site. So I should be paid
Well that's different. Do you have to stay in the wagon for the whole of your break?
@akbula I am still responsible for the security of the wagon and mail even when I am on a break off a royal mail site. So I should be paid
Well that's different. Do you have to stay in the wagon for the whole of your break?
You have no choice if your in a lay by, or up at a port waiting for the ferry on a weekend. Even in a service station your still expected to keep an eye on things. The union footed up big time on this
Driving a 40 footer over the mountains in Italy, if you park up and sleep, but leave your windows open a crack for fresh air, you'll probably get gassed, and wake up to find your trailer gone.
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