Re: Mandy and Total insist there's no discrimination, but....
- From: charlie6@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:18:06 -0800 (PST)
On 2 Feb, 11:56, Mel Rowing <mel.row...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 2, 11:28 am, Maria <fedupwo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
MM wrote:
...it suddenly occurred to me that the foreign workers in question are
from Italy and Portugal, not Germany or Holland. That is, the workers
are being pulled from countries that are traditionally seen as poor in
comparison to Britain because it's likely that the overall package
paid (in wages and perks) comes in cheaper than if British workers
were employed. There HAS to be a reason why Total allegedly (now it
refutes it) suggested never to take on British workers, and since it's
the bottom line that drives any company, this has to be the reason:
low(er) costs overall than popping down to the Job Centre to see what
Britain had to offer.
The lovely sound of pennies dropping all over the place.
It's not just Total or Alsthom- many jobs filled by Polish people were
advertised and recruited by Polish agencies in Poland - the Brits never
even had a chance to apply. And they may not even be 'legal' - lots of
these kinds of jobs are the sort that come with accommodation, and so on
paper, pay much less than minimum wages. I wonder how much the Italians
and Portugese are paying to sleep on that barge?
The disparity is quite horrendous.
The Kosovans at the car wash near here earn £20 for an 8 - 10 hour day
(even in the snow). They are crammed into a house with lots of other
migrants who they work with. They are probably illegal, their wages are
probably illegal, their housing is probably illegal, I would doubt that
the IR even knows the business exists, let alone who is working and how
much they are earning. In Northampton there seem to be lots of these
migrant labour houses.
This just betrays the nonsense of the minimum wage doesn't it?
These people are not being paid a legal minimum wage, they are being
paid the true market rate. The people for whom the minimum wage was
designed are now standing increasingly unemployed. Another way to get
out of paying the minimum wage is to subcontract the work.
The minimum wage has been applauded as a success by the politicians. I
always said I would reserve my judgement until harder times were with
us. I would now be interested to know what proportion of people now
losing their jobs are on legal minimum wage rates.
I suspect that the minimum wage legislation would more or less hold so
long as there was a net shortage of unskilled labour. When times
become hard and it's more a case of every man for himself then
employers and eventually workers will seek and find ways round it.- Hide quoted text -
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Have you ever run a busness - do you have any practical experience of
any large scale international business operations. If any any business
experience at all why not share that with us!
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