£6.08 an hour proposed as minimum wage
Thursday 30th October 2008, 2:58PM GMT.
THE minimum wage could rise to £6.08 an hour from April.
The Employment Forum has recommended a 4.8% rise – substantially less than the current inflation figure of 6.4% – for the main rate and the rate for trainees. For a 35-hour week, the new rate would mean a weekly wage of £212.80. The proposal will go to the Social Security Minister elected by the new States on 8 December, for consideration before it is formally lodged for debate.
If approved, the change would take place from 1 April.
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April the 1st indeed!
£212.80 a week to live in Jersey!
How positivley dickensian.
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weekly wage of £212.80? That would mean that after social you’ll receive £204.28 and with 3%GST you’ll be receiving £198 and if they don’t raise the tax exemptions you’ll be taking away a further £10-25 a week off that as well…
As the average person claiming benefits gets just over £200 a month without having these deductions I’m not seeing an incentive to go to work…
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How lovely. The States fights competition so businesses charge what they like – up goes inflation. Then they add an unnecessary 3%, up goes inflation. Then they have the cheek to suggest wage claims should reduce and minimum wages in reality go DOWN.
Ordinary living in this Island is becoming unbearable. Shall we all stop working and go on Income Support – I’m fed up with struggling?
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Goodbye Jersey
Was nice to be here, at least I coul enjoy the weather here (hmmm… at least from time to time
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£212.80? So where are the people who earn this going to live? £922 per month and yet you dont get much change out of £500 for a BEDSIT! Ok a minority of Jersey Folk will say ‘Theres a boat in the Morning’ but will they do their own dirty work when the minimum wage gang disappear? i dont think so.
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This means that the current rate is £5.80 per hour, which is 1.2% above the uk rate where do these politicians live, pull your heads out of your xxxx and pay a realistic figure NOW!!!
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If only salaries reflected the amount of difficulty and responsibility in a job, but they never do, so secretaries and PAs who do jobs that Directors could never hope to in a world of Sundays get paid poorly while the Directors (most of whose job is done by said secretaries and PAs) get ridiculously overpaid.
Have you ever seen a Director try and work a switchboard? Write their own letter? Deal with sifting calls? It’s hilarious. Funny how things run more smoothly while they’re on holiday for 4 weeks either
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i dare any states member to live on this wage for two weeks with out borrowing any money, and not useing a credit card.
i listened to the last debate about minimum wage
they wre arguing over 20 pence in the end .
it should be at least one pound three pence per hour above the uk minimum.
and even then its not enough un less you share a room with a few others or live with mum and dad.
(fair wages for all)
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It would be interesting to know what supermarkets pay their employees. If it’s the minimum wage (which is less than the UK’s) why are we paying so much for our produce???
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The thing is, didn’t we allow people to come to Jersey to do manual jobs primarily because they were happy to work for less? Isn’t that the whole reason they are here in the first place?
Ok I know this is going to come across as a “boat in the morning” comment but nobody has ever been forced to come here or stay here, if they can get a better deal back home then surely they would do so? Or do they suddenly feel a sense of misplaced loyalty to the island?!! The reality is, most of the immigrants that are working on minimum wage are here because £6 per hour is a decent amount of money for them and they are happy to work for that, I mean they do actually pay for their travel here so they choose to come, why do we have to feel that we owe them anything more?
There has never been a shortage of people wanting to come here and work, and that’s because the money they earn – less deductions – is still more than thay have back home so I’m sorry to say this but let’s NOT increase the minimum wage, there will still be plenty of potential workers wanting to come here.
Changing the subject slightly, couldn’t we perhaps get some of the workshy chaps currently living in Parade Gardens to do some of the lower-paid manual work? If they had to actually EARN their welfare money then they wouldn’t be sitting around drinking all day and bothering decent folk yet still getting paid.
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This is ridiculously low, as prices continue to rocket and housing becomes so astronomically priced that even relatively well paid islanders can’t afford a decent place to live we offer less than £900 p/m!
However, in response to the first comment – incentive to work?! The mere existance of benefits shouldn’t mean people are entitled to get them, the incentive to work should be pride and a sense of achievement. Suitably remunerated of course.
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There has to be people out there that will take this low rate though.
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