Work is a contract that you'll do stuff for them, for money. What you need to learn is not to go to your boss with a "please sir, can I have more hours" attitude, and more a "please sir, can I have more money" attitude. I don't know what your work is, but I honestly doubt you're as replaceable as you're scared you might be. You shouldn't be working out of fear like that, it's deeply unhealthy.
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Great how companies play up how replaceable people are, when the reality is something else.
This is a strategy that doesn't apply to blue collar workers. It applies to white collar jobs where it's pretty much common knowledge that a lot of time is just wasted with idle activities. This doesn't apply to many blue collar jobs where they are breaking backs to keep on a time schedule.
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Brexit has turned people stupid again.
Supreme court decision is really the only sensible decision they could possibly have come to.
If they decided that a PM can prologue Parliament to stop MPs or Lords interfering with his policy they might as well have renamed the office of PM to Supreme Leader.
At least the PM is elected as supreme leader rather than anointed as such by the aptly named Supreme Court Judges. Democracy died a little bit today in the UK.
And what about the 17.4 million? Watch this space, come the inevitable GE we will speak soon enough, unless the SC Judges EU style rule those illegal too.
13/11/2022 Sir Keir Starmer. "Brexit is safe in my hands, Let me be really clear about Brexit. There is no case for going back into the EU and no case for going into the single market or customs union. Freedom of movement is over"
The PM isn't elected you moron.
The person who has betrayed those 17.4 million people is Boris Johnson in his complete disregard for the law, for failing to justify his position, for failing to argue his case and in fundamentally undermining the very basis of British politics by bare-facedly lying to the Queen.
This is bigger than Brexit.
For my fellow Americans and other latecomers:
UK Supreme Court rules PM Johnson's suspension of parliament was unlawful
Multiple UK parties are now demanding the Prime Minister's resignation. Looks like Brexit just had its Johnson cut off.“The decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue parliament was unlawful because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification,” Supreme Court President Brenda Hale said, reading out the historic decision.
“Parliament has not been prorogued. This is the unanimous judgment of all 11 justices,” she added. “It is for parliament, and in particular the speaker and the (House of) Lords speaker, to decide what to do next.”
The country is deeply divided and the court ruling was eagerly awaited, from pro- and anti-Brexit protesters gathered outside parliament to people watching on television in homes and offices.
Johnson’s reaction to the damning ruling could be crucial. He now faces a hostile parliament and a European Union that says his proposals for a Brexit deal are far too meager for a proper divorce deal.
Parliament was suspended, or prorogued in the formal term, from Sept. 10 to Oct. 14. The prorogation was approved by Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s politically neutral head of state, on the advice of the prime minister.
Johnson, who took office in July, had claimed the suspension was necessary so that a new legislative agenda could be laid out and that it nothing to do with thwarting opposition to a no-deal Brexit.
I'm not and I'm defiantly not replaceable. Work is a contract or hrs and value for money, if I go to my boss and say I want more money I have to be actualy worth that extra money per hour or my other option that's open to any one is give more hrs in exchange for more money.
But that's MY perogative, it's up to me if I want to give more in exchange for more cash. What labour proposes is an infringement on my workers rights to sell my services for income.
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And if there reduced to 4 days they will be breaking there backs harder for one day's less pay.
The working time directive already exists though, something you have clearly decided to opt out of. It changes nothing legally, but the maximum number your employer can 'demand' of you; if you agree to do more, that's fine, and doubtless will continue to be fine.
What it does do, most importantly though, is change conventions on how work is done.
The propose a 32hr working week and removing the opt out for the EUs 48hr week. This means over time is far less likely to be offered and my options for making more money which I need in today economy and house market are more limited.
Instead if tackling why people are needing to work long hours there just forcing there will on the working class.
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Part of there proposal is removing the opt out! My employer won't be legal allowed to offer me hrs over 48 that directly impacts mine and many many others take home pay which many people need desperately after years of stagnant wages and rising costs.
That isn't how this works.
The idea of 4 day working weeks is to make use of increasing productivity by making use of automation, AI and other technologies as well as making working schedules more fluid, using job sharing schemes so that people are not spending more time working than they are not.
Your summation that people would end up doing 48hr work in 36 hrs is a really shortsighted view. The intention is to get people to have more of their own time for themselves.
That part has to pass first and foremost, secondly, it means your base rate will increase so you don't lose money on your base rate; and that you'll therefore get even more, for less overtime.
The reality is that those stagnant wages have come while profits have been increasing and productivity has been decreasing due to lack of investment in 'things to make you better at your job', and instead giving you more hours to get it done. At the end of the day, you're being paid less for the same job as others on the continent.
We don't want more automation and AI, and if they had that then they would do that at AI costs less than employees anyway.
We want more work, not less.
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The 48hr working time directive from the EU
Under current law you can't work more than 48hr a week unless you choose to opt out. Most people opt out because then you can get overtime and more pay ofc. I've used it often to work the odd weekend for some fat extra cash when it's been needed. Labour would remove that right so I would either have to do it under the books or move to a country that let's me work overtime.
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My base rate won't increase, there's absolutely no guarentee of that. You assume the company is going to keep paying me the same wage but for only 4 days, that's incredibly nieve, there is no way that's going to happen. All that will happen is I will get under more pressure to meet the same deadlines but with less days and less options and less pay. And if labour force the company to keep my same base pay then I might as well kiss my fucking job good bye because some Indian will be doing it within a year.
Fuck my life. I hope brexit collapses so I can fuck off to Germany.
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I'd have to do 16hrs to meet the same hrs I do base now, with no option to do my odd 50-60 hrs week I use to top up my pay for those extras like Christmas's and put to my house saving account.
Not to mention im now being forced to be far less competitive compared some fucking Indian software house, it was allready hard enough competing with there rock bottom prices, dosnt help there less shit nowadays.
If Labour get in I'm royaly fucked right up the arse.