Looks like £10.81 an hour or just under £22500 a year on a 40 hour week. Do businesses pay that in Oz as a living wage though ?
as long as they are not kids etc working at maccas i believe it is. living wage i do not know what you mean by that, if you are on the min thats you as far i as i aware. obviously kids are on on way less for working part time at fast food outlets. i will see what the dole pays over here. will get back to you
Not sure if I'm getting confused but I think Mrs Thatcher may be running in the London marathon this week amidst hightened security ... (that should be good enough for another 27 pages)
thats one thing that should change dragon, we pay people a pittance, the minimum wage is such that you cant survive off one, let alone raise a family off it, instead the businesses pay crap money then the government tops it up with various benefits to get it to a liveable level. why not make the minimum wage a wage level that you can live a basic life? whos side is the government on, the people or the big businesses???
i see what you mean now, business doesnt care about living wage, if they can pay the minimum they will. ie i am only on $23 odd an hour but am fortunate to have at least 10 hours overtime a week so with meal money it isnt too bad (ends up being around 65-70K a year), ppl on the minimum would struggle depending on ones lifestyle i assume
Margaret Thatcher arrived at the gates of Heaven. An apologetic St Peter said, "I'm sorry, we are not quite ready for you yet. We're sending you back to your old job for a few days". In a puff of smoke she was back in Westminster. Ten minutes later Abu Qatada was on a plane to Jordan.
Bore off with your working class sob story, predictable hatred of Thatcher. My Grandfather was a miner and he lost his job. Guess what, that happens. The energy companies got privatized, how do the workers there feel?? His living standards improved, his health and his quality of life. No way would the mines be open today after Labour political correctness, lovey dovey policies. Absolutely boring comments by ignorant people. She moved the country on so much. Gave the working class people a purpose, rather than knowing your going to work down the mine from birth. Our lives are alot better than they have ever been. How ever much your blind greed against the Tories goes, you won't change. Labour could put up a convicted ****phile for election and if he said "I'll take 2 pence of your weekly shopping", you'd vote for him. Exactly the reason why Wales will vote Labour again, bunch on single minded greedy working class people that will show the entire UK how much of a joke we are. I work as brick layer, I'd rather do that than be down a mine. People seem to just be hating Thatcher for the sake of it. More class and civility in a brothel. Should we expect the same for Blair? Probably not, he didn't start a war in our country! Just killed thousands of others.
Not everyone hated her, she served her purpose and broke the unions. Now I suggest you FCUK off you half witted tw@t ! We are not interested in some Tory fcuking **** head from kairdiff
What do you want? You come here insulting people and you would like a civil reply. Read my posts on this thread and you can get my thoughts on thatcher. Now fcuk off
Brian lad go away son and stop talking bollocks will you......I f any member of your family worked in the mines or any industry in south wales you would not talk like that......now JH go away and join the kids forum where you obviously belong...There's a good lad..
Did you even read what I said?. EPIC reply to just say I'm young and not wise enough to comment. That wit must have taken hours of thought to write. I just wanted to write a response to the jokes about Thatcher dying. Stop going so nuts. What do you work as? I can imagine its better than working down a mine.
I thought it was the Tories that are the greedy ones? You know, the wamkers that gave a tax cut to THEMSELVES and other millionaires
