>Getting people back into employment is a key part of the government’s plan to grow the economy and was a focus of the chancellor’s Budget in March.
I hope for genuinely disabled people they recognise there are many who literally cannot work.
Covid has left people with a lot of health problems and disabilities which I think accounts for the increase in people on the sick.
As a disabled person who has been trying to get part time work, I’ve been asking the right organisations and people for help but I keep hitting walls. Mostly because I am only allowed to work up to 15/16 hours a week which for most employers immediately loses me the job. So many now are 20 hours which I cannot legally do.
Make it easier for disabled people who do want to work!
>The Low Pay Commission has not yet confirmed its recommendations for next year but it estimates the rate needed to meet the government’s target should be between £10.90 and £11.43.
>In his speech on Monday Mr Hunt is expected to say that whatever the recommendation, the rate will increase to at least £11 an hour.
So in other words promising what was most likely going to happen anyway.
Is this not getting a bit ridiculous. We have a massive wage stagnation in middle of the road professions, engineers, doctors, researchers, folk who make the UK tick, stuck under £30-40k ceilings.
Increasing the minimum wage and overvaluing many professions seems like a plaster on the massive issue of pay vs living costs across so many professions. Why would folk bust their balls to become an engineer on £14/hr when you can sit at a till or stack shelves for the typical min wage + 1 that most supermarkets pay, £12/hr.
It just feels like we’re at the point that it’s already discouraging many professions and causing economic issues as a part of that, driver shortages for instance, I know in manufacturing many firms are crying out for facilities/equipment engineers, obviously the NHS staffing issues are well publicised, we need to encourage folk into these jobs far more than we need to raise the bottom wage line.
Better training, apprenticeship schemes & incentives to be better is what the UK needs.
And the cycle continues.
– Increase living wage.
– Companies reduce hours further to keep costs down
– Staff are stretched, and the quality of service/product that we receive as a consumer is a victim of that.
– Staff are still struggling finically as working fewer hours.
– Increasing living wage.
– And so on…
The solution is to make life more affordable, and that starts with the essentials: Groceries, Energy, Housing.
Supermarkets, Food Producers (exc. farmers!), Energy Providers, Landlords, Banks… all industries with companies making record profits.
Increasing the living wage to help those on lower incomes is like giving someone a paracetamol to heal cancer. It might help ease the pain a little in the short term, but it’s by no means a long term solution to the core problem.
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>Getting people back into employment is a key part of the government’s plan to grow the economy and was a focus of the chancellor’s Budget in March.
I hope for genuinely disabled people they recognise there are many who literally cannot work.
Covid has left people with a lot of health problems and disabilities which I think accounts for the increase in people on the sick.
As a disabled person who has been trying to get part time work, I’ve been asking the right organisations and people for help but I keep hitting walls. Mostly because I am only allowed to work up to 15/16 hours a week which for most employers immediately loses me the job. So many now are 20 hours which I cannot legally do.
Make it easier for disabled people who do want to work!
>The Low Pay Commission has not yet confirmed its recommendations for next year but it estimates the rate needed to meet the government’s target should be between £10.90 and £11.43.
>In his speech on Monday Mr Hunt is expected to say that whatever the recommendation, the rate will increase to at least £11 an hour.
So in other words promising what was most likely going to happen anyway.
Is this not getting a bit ridiculous. We have a massive wage stagnation in middle of the road professions, engineers, doctors, researchers, folk who make the UK tick, stuck under £30-40k ceilings.
Increasing the minimum wage and overvaluing many professions seems like a plaster on the massive issue of pay vs living costs across so many professions. Why would folk bust their balls to become an engineer on £14/hr when you can sit at a till or stack shelves for the typical min wage + 1 that most supermarkets pay, £12/hr.
It just feels like we’re at the point that it’s already discouraging many professions and causing economic issues as a part of that, driver shortages for instance, I know in manufacturing many firms are crying out for facilities/equipment engineers, obviously the NHS staffing issues are well publicised, we need to encourage folk into these jobs far more than we need to raise the bottom wage line.
Better training, apprenticeship schemes & incentives to be better is what the UK needs.
And the cycle continues.
– Increase living wage.
– Companies reduce hours further to keep costs down
– Staff are stretched, and the quality of service/product that we receive as a consumer is a victim of that.
– Staff are still struggling finically as working fewer hours.
– Increasing living wage.
– And so on…
The solution is to make life more affordable, and that starts with the essentials: Groceries, Energy, Housing.
Supermarkets, Food Producers (exc. farmers!), Energy Providers, Landlords, Banks… all industries with companies making record profits.
Increasing the living wage to help those on lower incomes is like giving someone a paracetamol to heal cancer. It might help ease the pain a little in the short term, but it’s by no means a long term solution to the core problem.