NMW to increase again next year to £12.21 ph.

I see so much of this. I think a lot of MN underestimates how many people and in what industries are on minimum wage.

My business supplies supermarkets with an item that a huge percentage of you will buy on a weekly basis. In our contract with the supermarket they know how much we pay our staff and what the costs are. The deal we have (and this goes for an awful lot of farmers) is that when our costs go up they will pay us more I.e a guaranteed margin. Staff costs are our second highest cost. Guess what’s going to happen to the items you buy in the supermarket.

If you read some of my earlier posts you will see I was.

I had a business and some staff. My business was a great idea, I loved it, but it was not financially viable.

Due to illness one month my wages fell, I had to go in, despite having a full time job until I was deemed to be working at capacity again.

I can’t go out of the UK on holiday without giving notice due to new rules.

i have had two benefit entitlement checks, involving months of statements from all my accounts. That is whilst working full time and then getting my income each month.

i consider that excessive, and i consider it hounding.

Are you are politician? Because this is what a weasely politician would post.

All I wanted to ask was how exactly PP was being hounded by the the evil UC.

It seems she is not.

working benefits are morally wrong, people should be able to work full time without the need for benefits. It has become the norm for low wages though so people accept this situation

Of course they aren't hounded.

Try being an employer if you want to know what being hounded is like!

So you are not “hounded”?

The NMW of 77p will increase a worker on NMW by £30 per week £133 per month

For the government this will reduce working benefits by millions £, which is a saving. It will also increase tax incoming as the extra £1600 will be taxed at 20%

'But nope this is actually all about the stranglehold these huge multinationals have and how they are able to direct the political narative so people just bleat on about wages as if this is the solution to the problem.'

Too true. Bezos could afford to pay more to the hundreds of thousands of Amazon workers at or close to minimum wage. He doesn't. So their low wages are topped up by benefits while he's the 3rd richest bloke on the planet.

There are some care homes that make huge profits. Children's residential care homes charge local authorities thousands a week and local authorities have to pay because children have to live somewhere. They basically buy another property with the profits, have 1 or 2 children in, have 3 care staff on duty over 24 hours and charge massive fees. It's appalling. Then these children turn 18 and the profiteering residential children's homes turf them out. No money when they are adults.

Exactly.

It's the same for family carers. They save this country an absolute fortune. 24/7 yet only receive £82 per week. It's a disgrace.

I can't believe there are actually people who begrudge the most vulnerable being able to eat.

To an extent, yes. I believe that they should get my income each month and that be it. I am actually in full time work
The system is there to help, it’s to help because we aren’t paid a decent wage and can’t live on it, however somehow it’s becoming a stick with which you beat the very people that so many of you rely on day to day.

I’d like to see all us low paid workers get a degree, better ourselves and then go and get all the better paying jobs we are now qualified for, then watch the UK crumble because hang on! No one is cleaning, or working in schools, or stacking shelves!

You look down your noses at us, but you need us.

I think VAT and tax fraud should be cracked down on across all businesses and the self employed. Now that would raise a fortune.

Small businesses will adapt (less staff probably) or close

Where will the jobs then come from?

Who is going to risk starting a new business in this climate - when all the rewards are being chipped away? (Entrepreneur's relief, rises to CGT etc) **

If jobs are replaced by machines, what are the people going to do?

No answers as yet but let's see...

** ok not yet announced, but have been strongly suggested leaked

@Blanketyre so the people who empty your bins, stock the supermarkets,care for your children,grandparents,disabled family member etc don’t deserve NMW ?
Someone has to do these jobs ,otherwise the country and society would be screwed! So what is your answer then ?

True. Some good points.

My friend is a local authority foster carer and receives around £300 a week for a 24 hour, 7 day a week responsibility for a child. It's disgraceful. No NMW for some.

Of course not but to get sanctioned you've got to have done a number of things wrong. I've been unemployed and on UC and never once got sanctioned nor did I feel hounded by them. I missed an appointment once, notified them through my journal, got told not to do it again or I'll be sanctioned or considered for sanctions, and that was the matter closed.

I look forward to hearing about it then, surely they'll say something today as they'd have already considered this.

Do you think they should get sanctioned for ridiculous reasons leaving them unable to feed themselves?

That's because his employer has to fund all the NMW rises before other employees

What's made up?

You're moaning about the minimum wage increase - ergo you'd rather it didn't happen. If that's not true then what are you complaining about?

You won't be earning any less than you currently earn. All that changes is that some other people will earn a bit more.

So you think people should be given state money unchecked?

People are deliberately misunderstanding the issue on this thread. All anyone can see is "more money in my pocket is a good thing!" (Which it is) But when everyone gets more money in their pocket no one gets more money in their pocket, the bottom rung of the salary ladder is still the bottom rung of the salary ladder. But to offset increasing the money in your pocket companies will now have to increase the cost of everything they sell us. So if you're already struggling to feed your family this increase will not change that.

If everyone's salaries in a company go up by 7% to accommodate the nnw increase that puts a huge financial burden on the public and charity sectors who run on tight margins as it is. It's all very well to say if you can't afford to pay a living wage don't be in business but let's see how society manages with even less public and charity sector resources.

I run a business. Honestly if businesses cant pay this then they dont have a viable business anyway