UK pay falls at fastest rate on record as inflation hits

Re:UK pay falls at fastest rate on record as inflation hits by mmarq on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:16AM (#32151802)

Benefits in the UK are barely enough to survive, and only if you have a serious disability that entitles you to the entire package. It’s frankly ridiculous that we expect people to work full time without getting paid enough to live a good life, which means renting your own flat (if not buying it) not too far from your workplace and pay for all the groceries and bills and taxes and whatever.

If renting a half-decent flat cost £1500 per month, I don’t see how we can expect people to work for less than £2500 per month.

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Re:UK pay falls at fastest rate on record as inflation hits by origin_path on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:50PM (#32154485)

Those 5 million people aren't dying, and they aren't taking all those open jobs either, so apparently it's not that hard to survive on out-of-work benefits.

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Re:UK pay falls at fastest rate on record as inflation hits by bostik on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:45PM (#32155326)

Actually, they are.

We have working people in the UK in the situation where they would be delighted to have to choose between "heat" and "eat".

Because now they are forgoing both. FFS, children are stealing toilet rolls from their schools because their families can't afford to buy them.

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Re:UK pay falls at fastest rate on record as inflation hits by mmarq on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:33PM (#32155989)

The employment rate in the UK is 76%, in Germany it is 77%, 68% in France. I don’t see work laziness in the data, at best I see employers wanting to hire full time workers for £1800 a month when renting a half-decent flat cost £1500 and transport cost £2-300 a month. I’m sure there aren’t 5mil vacancies for fully remote jobs that pay £100K.

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