Make your land like ours!

[Marius_Ursus]

Do you have minimum wage laws in the UK? That's a root problem for the reason why illegals are hired for crap jobs. It's minimum wage and a general feeling of entitlement.

Yes, we do and in the area I live in it's not illegal immigrants who have to exist on it.....its an average wage :roll:
We have a tiered system with one minimum wage for 16-18, one for 18-21 then full money. Tough if you happen to be 20 with a wife and a couple of kids...!
[url:1laui6rt]http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/nmw/[/url]
The problem with the illegal immigrants is that they are working for LESS than minimum wage on what is commanly known as 'backhander' money.
No Tax or National Insurance of course, just cash in hand and no questions asked. Of course, if you do a weeks' work and don't get paid, you haven't any proof either, unless your fellow workers back you up.
regards
Arthes

That's sort of the situation we have here except there's no minimum wage under 18. The illegals will work for less than minimum wage which is one of the reasons minimum wage shouldn't exist. If employers could pay less and hire more legal workers, there wouldn't be a calmboring for low-paying jobs by those who enter the country under less-than-honorable conditions.

Unfortunately, there is that feeling of entitlement rearing its ugly head. A problem that feeds upon itself has been created in this land, and now even those who will take a minimum wage job will not do it well. You can walk into any fast-food restaurant here and see how dirty it is because those who are willing to take those jobs are high school students who never had to perform hard work and will just quit a job because the manager wants them to mop the bathroom floor.

I feel a tangent coming on...a rant about laziness and lack of pride in one's work because it's "beneath" them, so I'd better stop now.