Why would you expect to be paid more than min wage for a job that doesn't need any qualifications or experience, and minimum skill level
'minimum skill level' - i'd like to see half the arseholes who say hospitality workers have minimum skill actually trying to do our job. There is plenty of skill involved in making and serving drinks and food, handling money and payments, stock taking and rotations, opening up and closing down, and most of all dealing with idioits who look down their noses at us thinking they're 'better' and can treat us like shit.
*I dont understand most of these posts.
People don't want to work weekends as thats family time?
Students don't want these hours as it would interfere with a social life when it starts again?
People won't work for minimum wage?
And the best one of the lot..People want paid more at the weekend???
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I mean, what planet are you on?*
Of course weekends are 'family time' for many. Have you seen the handwringing on MN about people's DH's going out for an hour run cutting into family time. And whilst I agree that is a bit precious, working most of daylight hours for both weekend days does cut into people time to see not just their nuclear family, but other friends and family who also work normal 9-5 job hours in the week.
Do students not deserve a socail life? There's no point earning extra 'fun money' if you haven't got any time to use it because you spend all hours studying and working. As many people have told OP she might have better luck if it was one weekends day but people, yes even students, want and deserve 1 day off a week.
Of course some people will work for minimum wage but most of the time you have to be absolutely desperate and in need to do so.NMW hasn't kept up with inflation so essentially people's time in being devalued year on year. Many people have decided that their time is worth more than that now and so activaly choose to apply for jobs which offer more (all the big supermarkets, Boots, warehouse jobs, even amazon).
Why shouldn't people want paying more for unsociable hours? Less people want to work them, therefore there is more demand for labour in this time, thus the price of that labour increases, simple supply and demand. Even amazon (who seem to be the scum of the earth on MN) pay above minimum wage at base, and then pay more for weekends, and even more for overnights/stupidly early mornings.
Change in the labour market don't happen until people demand better. Sick pay, maternity leave, standard holiday allowance, staff perks, all weren't a thing at one point. Until employers found that they couldn't get good staff without offering things to attract them to their company. There is now more demand for hospitality workers than before and less people wanting to work in hospitality so employers are going to have to be more attractive and the ones that aren't are going to find themselves understaffed, possibly even so much so that they can't open. People demading better conditions, more respect in the workplace, and to actually have their time skills and effort valued isn't a bad thing at all. It's how we make good change happen. And hopefully in the future people will look back on working conditions now and be as horrified as we are when we think about working conditions 100 years ago when people could still choose not to hire based on race and the new young female staff could be fired for refusing to sleep with the boss. People demanding better is good, change which respects and values people more is good.