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Dodgy pay
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What he said...
If a job says it pays "£6.19 - £7.77 per hour" then when agreeing my contract I'd confirm what I should expect based on my contracted hours rather than making an assumption.
Unsociable hours can vary from employer to employer, for example at my wife's employer it starts at 8pm but I'm sure it is different at other places.
Was there anything in the job advertisment that indicated how the £/hr breakdown was setup in terms of reference to 'unsociable hours' etc?
So 3pm-10pm is day rate, hour break, last hour on night rate?
So unless you're clocking out for lunch at 10pm, I'd ask why they deduct your lunch hour from the night pay and not when you actually take lunch.
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You made the mistake of assuming rather than asking. They paid you within the agreed price. Nothing really to say on top of that.
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6.19
I probably wouldn't work for that.
Don't care what anyone says how you should be grateful.
They should least cough up a bit more. Thats same pay you get working in a damned bar.... that's a joke. In fact you get more. What are your duties in your job?
I probably wouldn't work for that.
Don't care what anyone says how you should be grateful.
They should least cough up a bit more. Thats same pay you get working in a damned bar.... that's a joke. In fact you get more. What are your duties in your job?
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This is of course assuming that that his night rate starts at 10pm, most places I've worked the night rate hasn't started until 11pm.
@OP there is nothing dodgy in how they are paying you at all, they are paying exactly what they advertised which was "£6.19 - £7.77 p/h" and correct me if I'm wrong but both £6.19 and £7.20 sit within that range, so basically don't assume it makes an ass of u and me.
Yeah one of my friends has a job in a factory and all he does is fill boxes, he does different shifts, some night, some late etc etc, and he is on £9.20/hr which i think is very good for a none skilled job on a production line basically.
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this is the problem with the general population, they feel certain things are beneath them so won't do it, but believe me when I say if you are out of work and have bills to pay you would quite happily clean **** off the floor with your own toothbrush for minimum wage
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and despite a lot of genuinne people being out of work this is why a lot of people are unemployed, they expect to come in at management wages and get tea brought to them while they sit at a computer.
i started off on £3.77 p/h 10 years ago (1p less then minimum wage as i was 17 at the time) and was overjoyed to have a job, i only left the company last year and that was to go to another job with better prospects (such as posting on OcUK).
i did indeed which is why i dont work for them anymore, they never were a good paying company, most i was ever on was 22k pa inc shift pay, now ive left im much happier and better off
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Good for you. Not sure how thats relevant?
You don't even know what the job is - it's a temp job on a salary of £6.19 so its hardly unlikely to be designing components for the Airbus A350 is it? You have absolutely no basis to be disparaging about the level of pay.
I honestly don't understand what your point could be.
It's funny because I would be on benefits not scrubbing **** off the floor for minimum wage.
It would make no sense to do so.
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Have you seen how much you get on JSA? I sure as hell isn't minimum wage...
Minimum wage = £6.19 p/h
So in a forty hour week this would be £247.60 less tax so around £217.06
JSA = £71 per week so based on a forty hour week this would be £1.78 p/h
Plus there's no guarentee that you will qualify for other benefits except maybe council tax/HB which would go straight to LL so you would still have to pay all other bills on £71 per week. Believe me you would scrub ****
Plus if you are on JSA and can't come up with a valid reason not to take a job (Doesn't pay enough is not a valid reason) they'll just stop JSA anyway as you are obviously not trying to get a job, so therefore no money at all...