Are employers are only after cheap labour?
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Cheap labour - young people exploited
This is a discussion forum on the Weekly gripe. Do you think that employers are only after cheap labour and are willing to exploit young people to make a profit?
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My gripe is exploitation of young workers. My son signed a contract on December 19th 2005 as an apprentice joiner to a local firm. By the contract date he should be eligible for a pay rise as he has started his second year.
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| 28-9-2007 | Mary
The employer is not a rat - that is exactly how the construction apprenticeship scheme works. You should have done a bit of research on the apprentice set-up before he started. The CITB were right to find in the employers favour. | ADL |
| 05-8-2007 | Young Workers Are Exploited, Yes! Because That's the way we want it, isn't it? Is it immoral or something? Aren't young workers exploited because there's no Law against it or if there is it's easily flouted? Our children will be exploited and our grandchildren WILL be exploited t...more | SpareUsTheLies |
| 30-4-2007 | apprenticeships are a con their just a way of exploiting young people my son is doing a welding fabricating gets a poxy £80 a week. three lads started at the same time three months ago one was told after six weeks he was no longer reqired because he didn t work hard enough the place is EMH in...more | kayris |
| 28-3-2007 | Equitable Joe: Once an employer finds that they can exploit an individual they will take them for a ride as long as possible, never ever re-considering their original pay-level or remunueration or proper career prospects.
Employers MUST re-bid every year for a person's services, in a proper m...more | Workers' Rights |
| 27-3-2007 | I can relate to this so very well. My son in same predicament. He gets paid 30 quid a day, and coming 21 this sept. He isn't just labouring he is doing actual joinery work. I am not surprised as I know my son is a dab hand. However, his employer told him to say that he is a fully qualified ...more | Ro |
| 14-3-2007 | Young people aren't exploited enough in today's labour market. They're too cocky, expect everthing handed to them on a platter and refuse to expect the principle of 'working your way up a trade'. | Equitable Joe |
| 07-2-2007 | It has just occurred to me that young people should auction their labour via an eBay type of arrangement. They put themselves up for offer on eBay, with their resumé or CV, or list of qualifications and experience, and employers then bid for their services in an auction. Such auctions could hav...more | Adam |
| 07-2-2007 | And that's the moment, if the employers want the wee laddie, they will try to outbid the alternative. If they want to get rid of him they will let him go. To be competitive you have to be competitive. You are in an auction when you have a job. The only evidence that you are being auctioned is ot...more | Adam |
| 07-2-2007 | Fair comment Adam, but the fact still remains that many employers would still unscrupulously treat young workers as cheap labour. I was in the same situation myself many years ago and although you can argue that the young person isn't fully trained and therefore shouldn't be paid top dollar...more | Sootie |
| 03-2-2007 | Due for a pay rise?
But that’s not how it works - or so it would seem.
But that's how it does work. Unfortunately no one is "due" a pay rise at the end of the year, no matter whether they have had a promotion, have increased their experience and productivity, or even just t...more | Adam |
| 31-1-2007 | Thanks Richard will give them a call and see what they say. Fair comment Tough but taking the work he has done into consideration previous to college then he should have had proper labourers pay...apprenticeship wage not a prob while doing apprenticeship as it was expected to be low. | mary |
| 30-1-2007 | Not sure if it will help in your son's case but ACAS:
http://www.acas.org.uk/
They will at least give you some advice | Richard |
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