Ikea to introduce minimum wage of €11.50 per hour

Only downside is that the money is given to the staff in pieces and they have to put together themselves after they have walked seven miles in an S shape to collect it.

The_Captain wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/ikea-to-introduce-living-wage-of-1150-per-hour-for-all-irish-staff-31389134.html

I'm actually tempted to send in a sneaky CV this morning.

It will probably have no impact whatsoever on the wider economy as businesses will continue to do everything possible to force wages down, but if they do actually introduce something like this I'd go out of my way to shop there.

I expect a load of naysayers will decry it as foolish and damaging to the company, but they didn't become the biggest furniture company in the world without having some serious business minds in the company, so I'm interested to see how it all pans out

What does a sneaky CV look like?

That wage at 11.50 a hour is better then some of the IT companies are paying for there college Grads :eek:.

I really do think i am in the wrong industry LoL.

11.50 is the recommended 'living wage'.
Internationally more and more companies seem to be advertising that they do not pay 'minimum wage' but 'living wage'....goes down well with workers and customers alike.

In the overall scheme of things a minimum wage should be temporary and there should be a transparent, realistic, measurable path to higher wages in place so that earners can move out of minimum wage quickly by gaining experience and acquiring more skills etc in any given job sector.

Too often people are fobbed off and kept on minimum wage for a long time or replaced by other job seekers starting off on the jobs market either if they secure higher paying work elsewhere or a change in circumstances forces them onto welfare.

There should be an advocacy service of some sort in ALL employments so that people can know the correct procedures and paths to gaining more wages in a planned fashion. Access should be allowed to regional and national wage trends so that people can bargain from a position of accurate knowledge and get the best deal for themselves.

Too often people in unionised employment get much more money simply on the basis of raw political power while non unionised people get a lot less even if they are more skillful and better at their jobs. Work status and nationality also play a huge part in determining pay. There is even a dichotomy between effective union representation and ineffective union representation where internal sectoral competition tend to drive down wages for new recruits doing the same work as holders of older contracts. All these anomolies breed resentment and jealousies in the contemporary workplace and lead to a dysfunctional and nonharmonious work experience.

Big trouble with the minimum wage is that it is transparently obvious to the recipient that they are regarded as somewhat of a minimum contributor to the overall workforce. While people can accept this on a temporary basis in a clearly defined path to higher wages in a certain timeframe it is when the process drags on with a lot of uncertainty and chaos that trouble begins.

The present economic situation does not help this in any way.

mariaalice wrote: »

That not true from the time of the industrial age business have been trying to drive down cost by automation and they do this to avoid expensive labour costs that's not the same as driving down wages its avoiding the cost of labour by automation, the higher the cost of labour the more incentive to try and automate the work.

One of the outcomes of the industrial revolution was to reduce the need for skilled labor and use automation to bring in lower skilled labor at a lower wages. Many of those roles were filled by the skilled laborers whose skills were no longer needed.

has to taken with a pinch of salt.
largely depends on what pay premiums are for overnight/sundays, and what other perks there are (subsidised food, free uniforms or not, staff discount rate, xmas bonus,etc)