On the whole, I agree with the male side of this discussion. Becoming a single parent coincided with setting up my own IT business. As I was wholly financially responsible, I returned to working full time shortly after, working the same hours as my male counterparts, often at a higher rate because that's what I negotiated. However, when the second (planned) child arrived, I chose to retrain as an Accountant so that I could work part-time, taking a paycut of £35/hr. This was my choice, I am the only person working part time and my company is very flexible, I set my own hours. It would be like a slap in the face if I asked the Director to pay me the same as the male resources, who sometimes work away and at weekends. The business owners should not be held responsible for domestic arrangements at home, these should have been discussed beforehand with your partner to be.
Having read the MTD comments over the last few weeks/months/blah and I've come to the conclusion that you are all a bunch of dinosaurs. HMRC is trying to move with the (technology) times and really, this is way overdue. Of course, HMRC involvement means that it will be complete chaos but having worked for Accenture on the NIRS2 , I know that these things have a habit of working out (eventually and at great cost) but technology marches on and you can decide to be either a leader or a moaner :-)
I'm going to make a couple of assumptions here, the first is that you live in or around the London area because to those who live in the big area that isn't London, £10/hour is something we have strived and trained to get and is a lot of money. Traditional Labour voters are outside of London and believe it or not, you can still buy a house for under £50,000, these are the voters who will be most adversely affected by Corbyn's policies, which is why a lot of them could be voting Tory for the first time in their lives.
And Garden Tax is as real as Dementia Tax and Bedroom Tax.
This seems to have turned into a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party so to redress the balance:
Minimum wage £10/hr to everyone , doesn't matter if you've taken time to study and learn to get better qualifications, it doesn't matter that you've been in the job years, everyone gets the same - nope! Those people who have worked hard to move up the ladder to earn £10/hour will also want a 25% pay increase and why not. Businesses will seek to keep payroll costs down, their only option is to make redundancies, resources will be discouraged from training as there will be no pay increase on offer as no funds available.
Garden Tax: This will lead to a rise in costs of essentials such as bread, milk, butter, cheese, vegetables, fruit, etc. etc. which will have a knock on effect on inflation (remember the good old days of 1970s and 1980s?). The money in your pocket won't go as far so those pensioners will find that their 'increase' is actually a decrease in available income. The amount per hour required to meet minimum living wage levels will also increase, add this to Businesses increase their prices to recoup all the tax increases (and minimum wage) and you have the perfect storm.
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On the whole, I agree with the male side of this discussion. Becoming a single parent coincided with setting up my own IT business. As I was wholly financially responsible, I returned to working full time shortly after, working the same hours as my male counterparts, often at a higher rate because that's what I negotiated. However, when the second (planned) child arrived, I chose to retrain as an Accountant so that I could work part-time, taking a paycut of £35/hr. This was my choice, I am the only person working part time and my company is very flexible, I set my own hours. It would be like a slap in the face if I asked the Director to pay me the same as the male resources, who sometimes work away and at weekends. The business owners should not be held responsible for domestic arrangements at home, these should have been discussed beforehand with your partner to be.
Having read the MTD comments over the last few weeks/months/blah and I've come to the conclusion that you are all a bunch of dinosaurs. HMRC is trying to move with the (technology) times and really, this is way overdue. Of course, HMRC involvement means that it will be complete chaos but having worked for Accenture on the NIRS2 , I know that these things have a habit of working out (eventually and at great cost) but technology marches on and you can decide to be either a leader or a moaner :-)
£1 bn was already ear marked for NI development, even so, it is still less than Gordon Brown gave the DUP for supporting him in ONE vote (£1.4 bn)
I'm going to make a couple of assumptions here, the first is that you live in or around the London area because to those who live in the big area that isn't London, £10/hour is something we have strived and trained to get and is a lot of money. Traditional Labour voters are outside of London and believe it or not, you can still buy a house for under £50,000, these are the voters who will be most adversely affected by Corbyn's policies, which is why a lot of them could be voting Tory for the first time in their lives.
And Garden Tax is as real as Dementia Tax and Bedroom Tax.
This seems to have turned into a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party so to redress the balance:
Minimum wage £10/hr to everyone , doesn't matter if you've taken time to study and learn to get better qualifications, it doesn't matter that you've been in the job years, everyone gets the same - nope! Those people who have worked hard to move up the ladder to earn £10/hour will also want a 25% pay increase and why not. Businesses will seek to keep payroll costs down, their only option is to make redundancies, resources will be discouraged from training as there will be no pay increase on offer as no funds available.
Garden Tax: This will lead to a rise in costs of essentials such as bread, milk, butter, cheese, vegetables, fruit, etc. etc. which will have a knock on effect on inflation (remember the good old days of 1970s and 1980s?). The money in your pocket won't go as far so those pensioners will find that their 'increase' is actually a decrease in available income. The amount per hour required to meet minimum living wage levels will also increase, add this to Businesses increase their prices to recoup all the tax increases (and minimum wage) and you have the perfect storm.
Except those Doctors who have retired and then consult back to the NHS, superann won't be payable for them.