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A report into employment laws commissioned by the prime minister has recommended scrapping the right for workers to claim wages.
Currently, workers are able to claim compensation for work they perform, a process known as ‘being paid’ or ‘getting a salary’.
The report was written by Adrian Beecroft, a venture capitalist and Conservative Party donor.
The chancellor, George Osborne, recently announced new measures aimed at restricting the number of wage claims.
He announced that, from April 2011, for a claim for wages or a salary to be paid, the individual must have been in the job for at least two years.
Staff ‘Costing Money’
However, Mr Beecroft’s report goes much further.
It calls for an end to wage paying – a system the report’s author thinks prevents employers from expanding as they are fearful they won’t have enough money left to spend on themselves because a lot of it is paid to their employees instead.
A final draft of the report, dated Oct 12 2011, says the first major issue for British enterprise is “the terrible impact of wages on the efficiency and hence competitiveness of our businesses, and on the effectiveness and cost of our public services.”
Labour’s claims that abolishing wages would adversely affect consumer confidence because most people wouldn’t have any money to spend was dismissed by a Downing Street spokesman as ‘scaremongering’:
By introducing slavery, the owners of firms will have more money to spend on themselves which will more than cancel out the lack of spending power of their employees.
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Pride's Purge 
Wouldn’t surprise me. Only a matter of time.
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The Tories are doig everything to make their dream of a low wages – cheap labour economy with no protection of workers rights to come true so their big business friends can compete with China and India.
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It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.
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We’ve all been slaves since the industrial revolution. They enticed us into cities promising jobs n wealth for all. They enclosed (stole) common land then we were trapped. Many low paid workers and those unemployed know the reality of the slavery we live in, unequal taxes etc. When the better off amongst us are subjected to this THEN that might wake folks up to take action. The only way is for a benevolent dictator to take charge n get rid of most of the statutes blighting our lives. The Magna Carta 1215 is all the law we need. Everything else is just to trick us.
Instead of dole money, give us all a bit of land (back) to grow our own food. How many teenagers would that keep from getting into trouble? It makes sense so it wont be done.
So TPTB are now so confident that they can openly promote the above n we the free ppl won’t rebel? (MC1215 article 61). If it wakes ppl up yes bring it on
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Unfortunately, I suspect we the free people won’t rebel.
Not when there’s something more interesting on the telly we can be watching.
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THATCHER WAS ALWAYS ONE FOR NOT FOR TURNING FORTUNATLY NOW THATCHER IS NO MORE THE CURRENT GOVT ARE GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTING THESE POLICYS UPON THEM SELFS FOR HISTERITY MEASURES ALL OTHER WORKERS IN BRITIAN WILL BE IMUNE THE SALARIES THAT UP UNTILL THESE MEASURES WHERE BEING PAID TO POLOTICIANS WILL BE PAID TO MINIMUM WAGE WORKERS AND A STEALTH TAX ON MP’S IN OFFICE MORE THAN 25 YEARS AT 99PENNCE IN £ WILL BE LEVIED ON ASSETS ACCRUDE FROM POST 45 TO PRESENT DAY EXTRA TAX WILL BE ADDED TO ONE WITH THE FLIPPING DUCK HOUSE AS EGG STATIC AND IN SHORT DEMAND OR THE IMPLEMENTATION OTHER WISE WOULD BE LOOKED DOWN UPON BY GOVT ASA YOKE
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I love the ‘histerity measures’. Hysterical austerity describes government economic policy perfectly.
As for MPs, I know people quite rightly get angry about expenses, duck house etc. But MPs claimed from the taxpayer a few thousand here and there. Bankers claimed from the taxpayer a few billion here and there. That’s the real problem IMO.
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What about the Wages Act 1992 ? ….they’re tied down by Europe …but there’s always pressure from the Neo Con Euro Sceptic right ? on Cameron
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Do you mean the Equal Opportunity in Public Employment Act 1992? Yes – that should reassure workers that both men and women will be treated with equal contempt and unfairness by employers…..
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maybe they’re out of luck , The Truck Act 1831 …..maybe the idea is to revert to Victorian Orthodoxies and unbridled Laissez Faire Capitalism ? as Capitalism and Neo Liberalism is in such a crisis at the very , very best
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http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?159954-The-Wages-Act-unpaid-wages-court-claim-poc!!!-urgent-help-needed!!!
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Interestingly, there is nothing in your link on wages being revoked or disputed under Beecroft’s proposals.
I don’t agree with any of Beecroft’s proposals, and that’s why the Liberal Democrats are opposing it, which will stop it passing a vote.
Europe is the most employee-conscious regulator in the field. The comments identify no-one here knows anything about diversity rights in employment. Almost all employment related directives from Europe have covered equality in employment in various diversity strands. If Cameron’s backbenchers get a referendum, we would lose one of the most valuable employee protectors. Currently the UK has to implement these directives through their own law; http://www.stammeringlaw.org.uk/eu/eu_directive.htm
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Mmm – I think you may have missed the point of the article. It’s a satire on the Beecroft proposals. The government isn’t really proposing slavery (well not yet anyway). The references to wages are supposed to be satirical.
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