National Minimum Wage?
 

just trawling through the jobs and i came across this job, how can they get away with not paying the national minimum hourly rate?

(this isn't about a job so thats why i didn't put it in the jobs section, it's a question)

Job No:

ACC/49752

Wage

£5.20 TO £6.38 PER HOUR

Hours

37.5 OVER 5 DAYS

Location

ACCRINGTON, LANCASHIRE BB5

Duration

Permanent

Date posted

08 December 2010

Closing date

20 December 2010

Pension details

No details held


Description

Screwfix have developed a fantastic reputation for offering the very best products, prices and service levels throughout our network of Trade Counters. To ensure that we maintain the high levels we've already achieved, we are pleased to announce the launch of our new trade sales counters which provide a more focused approach to the key account customers of. Screwfix.The role involves:Service Assistants are the first point of contact for our trade customers and that is why we pride ourselves on the delivery of excellent face to face customer service. Focusing on our key account holders, it is essential to provide a service which ensures that our customers keep coming back for more. .

How to apply

You can apply for this job by sending a CV/written application to Richard Butterworth at Screwfix, Electricity Street, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 1EF.

Employer

Screwfix

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

The pay for this job is within the minimum hourly rate
The current rates are:

•£5.93 - the main rate for workers aged 21 and over
•£4.92 - the 18-20 rate
•£3.64 - the 16-17 rate for workers above school leaving age but under 18
•£2.50 - the apprentice rate, for apprentices under 19 or 19 or over and in the first year of their apprenticeship

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

By employing somebody Under 21

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

thats ridiculous, the under 21 will be doing the job of an over 21, same hours and such

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

I think it's so configured to reflect experience, responsibilities, commitment & demands on earnings & such like.

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

when i was 16, i was on a YTS, i was earning £29.50 a week, for doing 40 hours

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

When I was 15 I was an apprentice bricklayer working 40 hours a week for £3 -11 - 6d :p:alright:

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

when 15 i was on £2-50 a week fer 5 days plus 3 hrs overtime on friday, oh the overtime pay was Fish n Chips, yahs don't know yer born.:D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

lol ok ok i'll shut up now

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

I left school at 14, my first weeks wage was 17s-6d.
when I finished my apprenticeship at the age of 21, I was
on 9-8-6d.
Now you expect to be paid that an hour, phew.
As Cashy said you don't know your born.

Retlaw.

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

i havent even got a clue how much money you just said you where paid, i'm from the pounds and pence era ;) :D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Cor blimey.. the wages were bad in the late 19th century. :D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Thats what I've put it in Pound Shillings and Pence if your from that era, then you should recognise how it was written 9-8s-6d.
Can't find the dammed pound symbol, its not where it should be.

Retlaw

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

And I hope your piles grow to the size of grape fruits.
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Retlaw

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

i don't remember shillings, i wasn't born till 76 lol

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

was 20 of em in a quid shaz.:)

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

5p then?

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

why didn't you just say £9.46 then?

tut....MEN

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Shut up moaning and get the job so you can get me stuff at staff price :D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

cough

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Because It's £9 43.Don't you be paying him to much.:D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Ya cashy and you got 10 pints of bitter to the pound in those days too:D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

how does that work out then?

£9 + 40p + 6p

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

In old money that would have been £9 3 shillings and 10 pence or 10d as we called it:rolleyes:

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

oh my god...how confusing

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

That's what us awd uns thout when decimalisation came in the early 70s :D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

god help us all if they decide we are having the Euro

i'm going out....i can't cope with all this confusion

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Right then Flashy, the €uro & €uro cents ........... :D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Because like you mickey mouse money didn't exist, it was £9 - 8s - 6d , and 6d today is 2 1/2 mickey mouses. :D

Retlaw

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Our gaffer at Lang Bridges used to reckon his wage up in pints, so many for him, and so many for the wife.

Retlaw.

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Now now Flashy your gona have a euro moment if your not carefull.Your brain cell could overload, :D:D:D:D

Retlaw

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

I guess Im glad I never did an apprenticeship then I was on £220 a week + bonus the day after I left school!

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

cheeky

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

His wife liked a pint too did she Walter:D:D:D:D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Nay Jay, thad were hur shur furt thouse keepin, a pound note were 20 pints. He reckoned all things monetary in pints which like tha said were a shilling.

May be you knew him, he live up Ossy, name of Billy Wilcox, foreman Pattern Maker at Lang Bridges.

Retlaw.

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Nam rings a bell Walter, had he any kids, may have known them

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Yes he had a daughter, Owd Wilcox lived somewhere in the Hornby St area, used to come to work on a push bike, one day I got off the bus at the junction of Fairfield St and Exchange St, and Wilcox wre riding along Fairfield St from Ossy, this were when it was a dirt road,
the daft owd beggar were weaving round the lamp posts, when he hit a rut and went over the handle bars, rammed his billycock down to his eyes, he were livid when he saw me stood there laughing me head off, he tried to make my life a misery for the rest of the day, always trying to fault my work, and when he couldn't he just got madder.

Retlaw.

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

I wont tell you what I was on when you left school it might upset you :p:D

Then again you are a couple of years younger than me.

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Or nine pints and fish and six on the way home ... and do the technicolor yawn into the cut from the Whalley Rd. bridge:eek::D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Worked one summer at Dutton's for about eight quid a week ... that would be in '63. But we got a healthy beer ration twice a day ... pi$$ed as a rat every day:thepint: There were only three of us working in the malt storage; but we got the beer ration for 12 men:eek: ... part of a union agreement when the malt store was automated ... and the charge hand was the only tea-total Irishman I ever met: Tommy O'Rourke. So that was a twelve man beer allowance for just two guys.:alright::alright::alright:

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

All that free ale.And you still moved to Canada.

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Indeed .... at the request of my liver:D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

Those were the days Eric:D

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

I worked on contract in the Lions brewing room back in the seventies, used to crease me every lunchtime when there was a raging argument about who's turn it was to go and get the Jazz, the good thing was they allowed us 2 pints a day whilst working there:):):)

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

It could be seen as rather vulgar to post ones salary on here.
Unless this is a, I earn more than you argument:D:D

To paraphrase Jimmy Carr £220 per week.... thats more than I earn in a day:hothothot:hothothot

Re: National Minimum Wage?
 

nmw another good labour idea.people forget what it was like before labour before they departed £2.00 an hour working in factories old peoples homes and the tories voted against it:rolleyes::eek::p

Was that before so many of our jobs moved abroad ;)