That could be perfect. Peace and quiet mid week. Excellent
Did you actually read what I wrote?
For a moment I thought you said 'unicorns' lolA country run by and for the benefit of the unions and its members.
It isn't exactly the same model for everyone, how do you think it works now for a 39 or 36 hour week , does the country grind to a halt at Friday afternoon ? Of course it doesn't different businesses and services have different models, and it wouldn't grind to a halt if we average 32 hours / week.How does a nurse fireman teacher scaffolder tarmacer binman work at home?
What?
We have record employment. An ever increasing minimum/living wage. Its a legal requirement to send your kids to school and the state does that, it educates for free. What is broken in that respect?
If as in your example the person has worked and paid in for 18 months then ive personally no issue in them using the welfare system in the same way a new worker leaving school and being made redundant after 18 months would.
It isn't exactly the same model for everyone, how do you think it works now for a 39 or 36 hour week , does the country grind to a halt at Friday afternoon ? Of course it doesn't different businesses and services have different models, and it wouldn't grind to a halt if we average 32 hours / week.
My post was more about standard of schooling and they type of employment that we have in this country which has changed dramatically over the past 20 years leaving lots of people behind I.e gone from good mining jobs into working in Amazon factories.
I think this bears out in the tax receipts the government receives I.e with this many people employed, they would expect significantly more money in the pot
My post was more about standard of schooling and they type of employment that we have in this country which has changed dramatically over the past 20 years leaving lots of people behind I.e gone from good mining jobs into working in Amazon factories.
I think this bears out in the tax receipts the government receives I.e with this many people employed, they would expect significantly more money in the pot
It’s the current rule that you can’t claim benefits until you have secured employment as it is in virtually all countries. I assume this does not include healthcare or education ie a migrant in employment cannot have access to a doctor or the healthcare system or schooling either for himself or his family. You will not attract people to this country by saying we will not care for or educate your children.
I might be wrong but tax take has never been greater?
What's being suggested isn't that unusual and it's a direction many countries are heading towards. I don't support Corbyn or this Labour party but not every suggestion they make is bad, and it will happen sooner or later under one government or another.It wouldn’t grind to a halt because people will work 40/50 hours s week but under a 32 hour contract as many people do now
Because we know if we don’t our business will go under and we will be unemployed
Then we will be forced to join A state owned company digging holes for broadband cables
Good mining jobs?
What about the health of all these people now
The glory days eh
I'm sorry mate but that's taking the empathy tack way too far for me. None on the front bench comes near to being capable. Yvette Cooper is the only candidate with a chance of rescuing the Labour Party.
Ah seems I was wrong. Gove does think it’s unfair that EU nationals can access the health care system and should be barred from doing so. I assume we will be absenting ourselves from the principle of non discrimination between working British nationals and working EU nationals. Let’s hope the countries of the E27 don’t take a similar view.
Fair pointI’m not advocating reopening the mines. It was a wider point about long-term, well paid employment
Is it normal practice for countries to offer free education and healthcare to foreign nationals?
What's being suggested isn't that unusual and it's a direction many countries are heading towards. I don't support Corbyn or this Labour party but not every suggestion they make is bad, and it will happen sooner or later under one government or another.
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Most countries in the developed world have seen average hours worked decrease significantly.[14][15] For example, in the U.S in the late 19th century it was estimated that the average work week was over 60 hours per week.[16] Today the average hours worked in the U.S. is around 33,[17] with the average man employed full-time for 8.4 hours per work day, and the average woman employed full-time for 7.9 hours per work day.[18] The front runners for lowest average weekly work hours are the Netherlands with 27 hours,[19] and France with 30 hours.[20] In a 2011 report of 26 OECD countries, Germany had the lowest average working hours per week at 25.6 hours.[21]
The New Economics Foundation has recommended moving to a 21-hour standard work week to address problems with unemployment, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, overworking, family care, and the general lack of free time.[22][23][24] Actual work week lengths have been falling in the developed world.[25]
Factors that have contributed to lowering average work hours and increasing standard of living have been:
Recent articles[26][27] supporting a four-day week have argued that reduced work hours would increase consumption and invigorate the economy. However, other articles state that consumption would decrease, which could reduce the environmental impact.[28][29][30] Other arguments for the four-day week include improvements to workers' level of education (due to having extra time to take classes and courses) and improvements to workers' health (less work-related stress and extra time for exercise). Reduced hours also save money on day care costs and transportation, which in turn helps the environment with less carbon-related emissions. These benefits increase workforce productivity on a per-hour basis.
- Technological advances in efficiency such as mechanization, robotics and information technology.
- The increase of women equally participating in making income as opposed to previously being commonly bound to homemaking and childrearing exclusively.
- Dropping fertility rates leading to fewer hours needed to be worked to support children.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
Is it normal practice for countries to offer free education and healthcare to foreign nationals?
What do you think? Do you think it’s a good idea to allow foreign nationals working in the U.K. access to the health system?
I agree about the BP, their voters are starting to realise that voting for them now is pointless in many areas, so theCan't see it the BP have nosedived from around 10-13 when the election was called to about 5 or 6 %. By election day they could be fairly irrelevant. What votes they do get will hurt Johnson as much as Corbyn. The thing is Corbyn can't form a government best he can hope for is a hung parliament where any damage it does to Johnson could be the difference between government and a hung parliament.
A hung parliament will see the end of Corbyn and Johnson. Don't think either party can do any worse than the current 2 leaders.