They lend you money, you pay it back. It's debt, that's why it's called a student loan.
Teen who died in horrific accident while on £3-an-hour Government apprenticeship scheme
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They lend you money, you pay it back. It's debt, that's why it's called a student loan.
But its not the big bad scary debt some people think it is where bailiffs come and steal 'your' stuff if you haven't paid.
Did I say that? It's debt regardless.
Have to take risks in life, debt is one of those risks.
Regardless considering im perhaps trying to compare people with no grades persay to people who tried.
indeed i was on 4 quid something an hour in my first year, but h&S was taken ludicrously seriously by the company.
Why was he using a machine he wasn't trained on?
Article tries to say they were given brief instructions but some others then showed others how to operate the machines.
What a sad accident. And the point of wages doesn't deserve to be there for any other reason than being political.
Article tries to say they were given brief instructions but some others then showed others how to operate the machines.
What a sad accident. And the point of wages doesn't deserve to be there for any other reason than being political.
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So why deduct the personal fine from the companies fee to calculate a meaningless and misleading 'profit' figure then?
You are deducting the fine from the companies fee, therefore what the company got fined is more relevant than what the individual was fined!
Time was, apprentices paid for the privilege of working/learning
(And it was expensive too!)
says something about the owner though clearly just after cheap labour, can't be bothered properly training them like he should be doing
It's just taking advantage of the poor
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Whilst there is plainly gross negligence on the part of the company, he did have the right to refuse to work in unsafe conditions and should have reported it as such. He has as much responsibility for his own safety and that of others as the company does.
Especially if the pay isnt that high, although obviously no amount of money is worth your life.
Especially if the pay isnt that high, although obviously no amount of money is worth your life.
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Poor kid
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
I think they are (related)
The availability of such cheap, inexperienced labour is quite a tempter for a business which likes to cut costs to the bone. Such inexperience in its employees allows further cuts to such things as safety protocols and safety equipment, since they will just accept such conditions as normal where an experienced, or simply older, operative would be more likely to raise a query/complaint.
He was a teenage boy. It is unreasonable to place significant burden on him to either know the dangers or react appropriately to them.
The company is wholly responsible and should face much more serious punishment than this slap on the wrist.
Definitely this. Scumbag employers just taking advantage of cheap labour.
