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Buriram Province - General Category => International News clippings => Topic started by: hotnutts on November 03, 2014, 08:17:25 AM

Title: UK Living Wage raised to £7.85 per hour
Post by: hotnutts on November 03, 2014, 08:17:25 AM

Ive not been back to the UK for many years , so ive lost track of the going rates , all I know many friends back home keep telling me their struggling .

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LINK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29873409 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29873409)







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Title: Re: UK Living Wage raised to £7.85 per hour
Post by: urleft on November 03, 2014, 12:08:43 PM

Wow, I am impressed.  Firms doing this on their own rather than the GVT forcing them, which is how it should be. 


Personally I think minimum wages should be eliminated. 

Title: Re: UK Living Wage raised to £7.85 per hour
Post by: toffo on November 03, 2014, 12:16:09 PM

So if they eliminated minimum wage what do you think would happen??  Another one of your great suggestions plonker

Title: Re: UK Living Wage raised to £7.85 per hour
Post by: urleft on November 03, 2014, 12:31:20 PM

I know what happens when GVT starts or raises the minimum wages, jobs are lost.