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<blockquote data-quote="onthehoof" data-source="post: 8241138" data-attributes="member: 11104"><p>Bit of a rant</p><p>Lad doing apprenticeship with Claas, just coming up to end of 2nd year out of 3, he turned 20 last month and received a letter last week stating that his hourly rate was going up from £6.80/hr to £6.83 an increase of 3p <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" /></p><p>Now we keep hearing that theres a shortage of Ag mechanics currently so where’s the incentive to encourage them into this line of work, OK so he gets a fair bit of overtime at 1.5 times normal rate and double on Sundays which he will gladly do BUT he has to buy all his own tools - spent £3k so far <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="Astonished face :astonished:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" data-shortname=":astonished:" />, he has to use his car to get to work and home 44miles/ no fuel allowance even though he has a works van, and Claas are charging farmers £90/hour for his work, and assuming they are getting a government grant to go towards his wages.</p><p>His younger sister just finished A levels and currently working in Maccys for nearly £10/hr, he’ll probably be under some farmer’s combine on Tuesday in 40c heat <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😧" title="Anguished face :anguished:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f627.png" data-shortname=":anguished:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="onthehoof, post: 8241138, member: 11104"] Bit of a rant Lad doing apprenticeship with Claas, just coming up to end of 2nd year out of 3, he turned 20 last month and received a letter last week stating that his hourly rate was going up from £6.80/hr to £6.83 an increase of 3p 🙄 Now we keep hearing that theres a shortage of Ag mechanics currently so where’s the incentive to encourage them into this line of work, OK so he gets a fair bit of overtime at 1.5 times normal rate and double on Sundays which he will gladly do BUT he has to buy all his own tools - spent £3k so far 😲, he has to use his car to get to work and home 44miles/ no fuel allowance even though he has a works van, and Claas are charging farmers £90/hour for his work, and assuming they are getting a government grant to go towards his wages. His younger sister just finished A levels and currently working in Maccys for nearly £10/hr, he’ll probably be under some farmer’s combine on Tuesday in 40c heat 😧 [/QUOTE]
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