Pay up, pay up and pay the going rate…
by Philip
Well it’s a very light news day today. The only point of interest is that the DTI (or the more snappily titled Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform or BERR for the acronym minded) is running a series of regional roadshows and awareness campaigns, targeting low paid industry sectors. The aim of the initiative is to remind employees of their rights and employers of their responsibilities. The right and responsibility in question is the right to be paid the national minimum wage (or NMW for acronym collectors).
Coupled with this awareness campaign is a coded warning that the enforcement teams will be baring their teeth a little longer and stronger in future. Scrooge employers out there you have been warned.
The enforcement teams could do worse than get out to the fields and factories of the fens, where our east european comrades are breaking their backs and busting their b**ls for wages as low as £2.00 per hour ( or so plenty of clients tell me.)Whether that £2.00 per hour is the genuine free market rate for the job in hand or Rachman-like exploitation by the employer, you the reader can comment on in the comments section below.
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