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employment issues

Danishfurniturelover

Danishfurniturelover

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I got told by our parent company I have to make redundancies as the date increase for the living wage has got profits. it is literally only £400 a month.

But now I have to either cut wages or hours across the board. Think I might just retire again as I do not really need the hassle. Anyone else had problems with this?

This is not meant as a political or point scoring thread, just got me a little sad how it has back fired.
 
How many people earn this amount, and how much is the amount per hour.

I.e. £400 per month is roughly £100 per week so a tenner for each of ten people. Can they all just have an hour off on a Friday (assuming a tenner per hour, I don't know how much poor people earn nowadays) to go down Wetherspoons and give it all back to JD?
 
not from this angle

my wife has given up work though as the nursery fee's have gone up so much that they are now more than she earns after tax
 
Bullet said:
How many people earn this amount, and how much is the amount per hour.

I.e. £400 per month is roughly £100 per week so a tenner for each of ten people. Can they all just have an hour off on a Friday (assuming a tenner per hour, I don't know how much poor people earn nowadays) to go down Wetherspoons and give it all back to JD?
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It's about a £28 per week raise for those on minimum wage. By the time you add on holiday pay and NI you can call it £35 a week.

In order to keep your wage bill steady (assuming everyone is on minimum wage) you'd have to shut at lunch on a Friday and keep production levels the same.

Based on Chich's figure of £400 I make that three employees total (assuming everyone was and remains on minimum wage).
 
Ta. Or you could stop the elongated tea breaks, smoking breaks, lunch breaks and leaving on the dot rife in some places.

Maybe get them to work an extra hour or two per day, like many of us that aren't on minimum wage.
 
Bullet said:
Ta. Or you could stop the elongated tea breaks, smoking breaks, lunch breaks and leaving on the dot rife in some places.

Maybe get them to work an extra hour or two per day, like many of us that aren't on minimum wage.
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Those thieving government bastards have that one covered.

If they work an extra hour without pay then their pay per hour drops below the minimum wage and you have to pay them more.
 
Spoke it over with her indoors and I am going to hand my notice in again, I am 50 put lucky as I do not really need to work. Do not need the hassle and not sure why they gave me the job. I am a harry redknapp type I am good at motivating people but I do not have a long term plan, the company needs a poch. We have been a success in my 18 months but to be honest the politics of it all is not for me. In hindsight I should have realised when they offered the managers job to be when I was just doing some part time driving for them.

I was happier when I was driving the cab back in Chi, it was nice to push myself as I had never been a manager before but been there got the t shirt.

As for the wage thing, GHod it was a minefield, we are in logistics and pretty much all the staff had different wage scales, often only by a few pence. But if we had staff start before 6am and a few do due to the nature of the business then they were classed as unsociable hours and paid extra but only if over half the shift was in the unsociable hour period. The were so many different things to deal with it became a pain in the arse and not the good sort of pain in the arse.

The guys in the warehouse said they had never had a manager like me and i think that is a good thing though some of the things i read on the warehouse toilet wall I am not sure they were all saying it in a positive way. But I always managed to hit targets and get people motivated and diffused arguments pretty quick, it is just the paperwork I cant deal with.

The parent company that owns us saying we had to make cuts after giving guys who were not on much a small pay rise made me feel a little sick, but I guess that is what they are like they got to keep making their profits.
 
Why hand in your notice? Just skive a bit, go to the pub at lunchtime, phone it in, take it easy, you still get paid for doing that... if you're going anyway. Try to elevate someone you like to be your replacement, give them a leg up on your way out.
 
Give someone a raise and make them your assistant, i.e. they do your job. Cut your hours in half to make the savings. Get paid to do FA.
 
monkeybarry said:
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The irony is that we have a ridiculously ineffective and inefficient government, but when it comes to fudging us over for money, they're amazing.

They are way ahead of you on that one - if a salaried worker is on mimimum wage, then any extra hours must be paid at their hourly rate.
 
scaramanga said:
The irony is that we have a ridiculously ineffective and inefficient government, but when it comes to fudgeing us over for money, they're amazing.

They are way ahead of you on that one - if a salaried worker is on mimimum wage, then any extra hours must be paid at their hourly rate.
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[Homer Simpson] Good ole Government! [/Homer Simpson]
 
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