£8 minimum Wage
- Thread starter franklin
- Start date
More to life
Member
- Location
- Somerset
Are you sure it's only 25k for a 60 hour week
- Location
- South Molton
£10.14/hour but have over a million invested! !
Hourly rate therefore means feck all!!
Hourly rate therefore means feck all!!
Darren
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
If a man isn't worth at least that, he's not worth employing anyway
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
I wouldn't pay our apprentice that. On the other hand I wouldn't pay him as little as the apprentice rate either (£2.90 an hour I think).
How is he going to pass his driving test, buy a Vauxhall Corsa, insure it, fit it out with £1.5k of stereo to blow his ears out, and then crash it into a ditch, on £2.90 an hour?
Clive you wouldn't pay a kid out of school £8/hour, your drivers are skilled enough to roll a Fendt without killing anyone....
How is he going to pass his driving test, buy a Vauxhall Corsa, insure it, fit it out with £1.5k of stereo to blow his ears out, and then crash it into a ditch, on £2.90 an hour?
Clive you wouldn't pay a kid out of school £8/hour, your drivers are skilled enough to roll a Fendt without killing anyone....
- Location
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
I think there is a big difference between what an employee earns and what a self employed farmer actually earns.
- Location
- South Molton
A man yes, too many boys think they're men!
Well if your self employed then you charge what you think your worth?
I would pay anyone capable of the job at least that - I pay harvest students more than that and they are only just out of school yet perfectly able to do the job taught and then asked of them
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Baling Hay
Member
So why not go and get a job on minimum wage if you would be better off?
Trouble is you've got to find out first , and good men don't last long cos soon enough they're on their own.
Landyman
New Member
Giz a job
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
As far as farming goes over the last decade or two I haven't made minimum wage.
As far as the increase in my assets (land and farm houses) goes over the last couple of decades I have done quite nicely thank you.
As far as the increase in my assets (land and farm houses) goes over the last couple of decades I have done quite nicely thank you.
Would you include wild oat pullers, taty graders etc in that remit?
I don't employ any but if they are doing a useful job yes I guess I would
Just because farmers are prepared to work for next to nothing doesn't not mean its fair to expect others to do so
£8/hr is only just over £16k per year - can anyone live on that these days, rent a house, run a modest car to get to work, eat, clothe themselves and have any possibility of saving for the day they can't work, pension etc ?
I've been paying a couple of polish lads 10/hour to cut bushes in one of our dales for stewardship.
They can't half shift some work in a day, and seem very pleased with there wage. I have also been taking them down a bacon sarnie apiece when it's chilly and recently gave em a crate of Stella as a thank you for there efforts.
I supply all the gear.
They can't half shift some work in a day, and seem very pleased with there wage. I have also been taking them down a bacon sarnie apiece when it's chilly and recently gave em a crate of Stella as a thank you for there efforts.
I supply all the gear.
- Location
- south norfolk
I expect there are alot on here who would be ecstatic to earn the minimum wage.
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