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Did anyone else think that IDS' behaviour after the Budget was a complete disgrace? What's with him punching the air as if he was at a football match?
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Not in my world
No, a 'national living wage' of £9 per hour will be introduced by 2020. Although no employers are obliged to pay this, it's just a recommended figure which companies will be asked nicely to pay before they say 'no'.
Here's his reaction: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/westminster/632257/video-iain-duncan-smith-goes-viral-following-priceless-reaction-budget-announcement/
He was punching the air at the announcement that the NMW will be £9 per hour for people aged 25 and over by 2020. I, like you, am struggling to see why people are annoyed. A politician shows enough passion at working peoples wages going up from £6.5 to £9 per hour within 5 years to shout and cheer, surely that is a good thing.
No, he is increasing the NMW to £9 per hour by 2020. Employers will be forced to pay the living wage for people aged 25 and over.
I'm sure the intention to confuscate is deliberate, by announcing a £9 per hour 'national living wage' many will now believe that the 'national minimum wage' is rising to £9 per hour.
I'm missing something. What's wrong in celebrating a huge jump in the lowest level of pay that companies are allowed to give employees?
What a topsy turvy world we live in. Had Labour done this, their supporters would be outside singing in the streets.
I suspect as the Living wage will be compulsory, the NMW will be rendered obsolete.
How much will everything else go up by 2020?
That's because it will be that by 2020.
It was specifically announced that for people aged over 25, living wage will be compulsory or if you like the "NMW" will be £9 for people aged over 25. This is clear.
Its not good news that the NMW will rise over 30% for people over 25 by 2020?
Shouldn't the budget be about the coming year then next year's budget should be about the year after that
What's happening in 2020 should be in the 2019 budget
How far does this have to go before everyone starts laughing ?
For example if the Chancellor had announced that the minimum wage would be £35 an hour in 2074........
Does this really warrant a thread?
Are the left really this desparate?
£9 per hour sounds all very good here in 2015 but by 2020 will not seem anywhere near as impressive. It's a clever feel good trick. Now if it was being announced from September this year it might be genuinely worthy.
As far as I was concerned I thought that the current National Living Wage was meant to be considered something around the £8 per hour? So this is a defacto scrapping of the National Minimum Wage and renaming it the Living Wage, when in truth it is no such thing. But a simple play on words has a good psychological effect on some people.
Many of Osborne's Budget's end up getting picked apart in the following days.
In your case I suspect it would be if it was from a Labour chancellor