Unemployment but do people want to work?

[Mister M]

JSA is £71.70 for those over 25. £56.80 for under 25s.

 

The fat of the land!!!!

[Elphi 24]

Thanks for the constructive comments - to the others it really demonstrates the reliance on the state and the view that they think they are owed a living. If we're appointing at general assistant level, we're paying accordingly (and above). If we were paying a brain surgeon that would be paid at the appropriate level.

 

We're offering a starter job, a few hours a day (hours flexible as long as we can get goods out by courier by the end of the day), minimal skills required just a bit of common sense, training is provided, its near the city centre and pay over the minimum wage. If you don't want the job don't waste your time replying with useless drivel.

 

The company is growing so it's a job that might grow.

 

Unless you can be constructive don't bother replying.

[Xt500]

You slate people then dont want to hear what their comments are?

 

The problem with the UK is company's are greedy and dont want to pay proper wages and i suspect your the same offering minimum wages which few could afford to actually live on unaided.

£6 an hour might be ok if your a foreigner living 10 to a house with no intention of a mortgage or having to look after kids, but most do want to actually live not just exist on a pitance.

[chem1st]

You slate people then dont want to hear what their comments are?

 

The problem with the UK is company's are greedy and dont want to pay proper wages and i suspect your the same offering minimum wages which few could afford to actually live on unaided.

£6 an hour might be ok if your a foreigner living 10 to a house with no intention of a mortgage or having to look after kids, but most do want to actually live not just exist on a pitance.

 

I wouldn't say wages are too high. The problem is the high cost of living due to the high cost of renting/buying a property in which to live.

 

Which is artificially inflated by government and is a monetary transfer from the propertyless/landless to those with properties/land, in particular a land owning aristocratic elite who have the control of land/property (backed by the state) of such a scale that they need never work and can merely live in perpetuity of off the backs of others, an increase their share of the national wealth by increasing rents to capture all productivity increases of the workers/capitalists. The system is rigged in favour of the land/property rentier. It is unjust and causes poverty.

[Xt500]

I wouldn't say wages are too high. The problem is the high cost of living due to the high cost of renting/buying a property in which to live.

 

Which is artificially inflated by government and is a monetary transfer from the propertyless/landless to those with properties/land, in particular a land owning aristocratic elite who have the control of land/property (backed by the state) of such a scale that they need never work and can merely live in perpetuity of off the backs of others, an increase their share of the national wealth by increasing rents to capture all productivity increases of the workers/capitalists. The system is rigged in favour of the land/property rentier. It is unjust and causes poverty.

 

Neither would i and didnt.

[SqueakyPete]

There are some really naive views about unemployment these days.

People basing their assumptions on tabloid headline facts,and tarring all the unemployed with the same brush.

[chem1st]

Neither would i and didnt.

 

Sorry, I meant to say 'low'.

 

Wages need to rise, or housing costs fall.

[Mister M]

There are some really naive views about unemployment these days.

People basing their assumptions on tabloid headline facts,and tarring all the unemployed with the same brush.

 

I agree that there's a lot of misinformation around....The tabloids and media in general certainly seem to have an agenda.

[tinfoilhat]

I agree that there's a lot of misinformation around....The tabloids and media in general certainly seem to have an agenda.

 

True, but the thread is basically the op saying how she's advertised for a p/t job and had no takers. It might not be best job ever, but according to the op above min wage and flexible(ish) hours. I don't know why they havent had any takers but I reckon it boils down to not enough money vs benefits and the hassle of going without both whilst wages kick in.

 

It isn't a media driven thread (and thank god for that)

[Cyclone]

You complain about the quality, why would someone who is good at there job be unemployed or take a job of a few hours a week ? When obviously they wil have full time opportunities at other firms ?

P.s potential doesn't pay the bills.

 

Few hours a day.

 

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The welfare system in this country is out of control, it is keeping people out of work.

 

One of the main points of the universal credit system that is being introduced is that taking additional work (be that from 0 to something or something to more) will never make you worse off overall. The amount of benefits that will be cut, will always be less than the increase in wage.

 

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More than £60 then there's housing benefit, council tax benefit, DLA, Incapacity, free prescriptions, etc etc.

 

DLA and incapacity are not available to the vast majority of unemployed people, nor would working cause someone to lose them.

 

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Your job is ****. It offers nothing to a human being financially, unless you can employ some single parent on a 16 hour contract so that they can exploit the tax benefit system and claim loads of government tax credits. In essence you do not pay a living wage, and people won't work for nowt.

 

High effective taxes and high housing costs make working financially irrational. People don't volunteer for slavery. Your job would be quite alright, it if wasn't for our perverse benefit system that rewards landowners.

Of course, it was always going to be the fault of the landlords wasn't it!

 

Could a youth buy a property on the wage you offer. They could ill afford to rent, they would be worse off than dole due to high effective taxes and high effective private taxes (be they issued by transport rentiers, property rentiers, legal permission rentiers).

Should they expect to be able to buy a house on the pay from a single part time job?

 

Rentier parasites are destroying this country, and the government exists to maintain their privilege. The system is fecked, and work is irrational for landless plebs.

 

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You have to take into account the system in this country. Work isn't rewarded, rentierism is.

How do you think the landlords bought houses to let, they worked first to save money.

A young person could not afford to rent so called social housing on a part time job. We live in a different time, today's generation have been enslaved by property and land rentiers, they will rebel, only a small proportion of people are happy to become slaves. Get ready to say bye bye to your pension, because the youth have been screwed over.

And you're sitting at home waiting for it to happen, rather than going out and getting a job and doing something with your life.

 

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You slate people then dont want to hear what their comments are?

 

The problem with the UK is company's are greedy and dont want to pay proper wages and i suspect your the same offering minimum wages which few could afford to actually live on unaided.

Did you not bother to read any of the thread?

 

The post directly before yours says

 

"Paying over the minimum wage".

£6 an hour might be ok if your a foreigner living 10 to a house with no intention of a mortgage or having to look after kids, but most do want to actually live not just exist on a pitance.

It's unskilled work. If you want to earn more you need to have some useful skills.