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Originally Posted by claytonender
Can you please inform us of what search criterion you put into fish4jobs to obtain the 5 permanent full time jobs you have given details of. They are all skilled jobs, notice no unskilled jobs, I looked on the Jobcentreplus website last night and the figures for jobs on there was much lower - even for skilled office jobs. There are many people in hyndburn working in low paid unskilled employment.
Also it is rather a sweeping statement that because Rishton average household income increased by 15% between 2001 and 2004 this trend must have continued. Whilst I appreciate that the changes in ward boundaries do effect the data for the other areas of Hyndburn, maybe Rishton is not a very good example to take as the area contains the households with the highest household incomes in Hyndburn. I know that there are also some very low incomes in Rishton as well.
My husband is a skilled tradesman, but his wages have only inceased from £5.20 an hour in April 2003 to £5.72 (which he is currently earning). Over 5 years this is an increase of £0.52 an hour or 10% - this equates to 2% per annum. I think that you will find that pay rises for people earning just above the minimum wage have only increased by about 2% to 3% per year.
Many employers (many of whom are large PLC's - who make very large profits for their shareholders) do not consider that they need to pay decent living wages beacuse the tax payer will subsidise them by payiing out (to those who meet the relevent conditions) Tax Credits.
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I didn't put anything in the fish4jobs, simply within 10miles of Accrington, full time and permanent. You asked me to put some advertisements for jobs so I did, and some were much above the average for a man in Hyndburn.
Can I ask what sort of skilled work your husband does? I can't understand that he would only get 20p more than minimum wage for a skilled job with presumably experience?
In terms of employers, there's lots of jobs out there, if I felt I was being underpaid for what I was doing, I'd start to look elsewhere, that's the great thing about markets.
What alternatives are you suggesting in terms of council tax?