shop - spend - save the economy

It is to do with the (local) government jane. As I said on another thread, there are lots of sweatshops In Leicester that the 'people' knew were there but nothing was done.

I heard on LBC yesterday there was a man paid £20 cash in hand for working from 10 am to 10 pm. I think, but I am not sure he was allowed to take as much food as he wanted/needed. He was living in some squalid house with around 15 others in the same situation.

Jane 10, I made a mistake, it's £3.50 an hour and it's a clothing factory in Leicester which has made news in the Mail.

How do the government know if a company is underpaying their staff?
Big brother isn't here yet!

It is to do with the government because the government is responsible for enforcing the law.

It is illegal to pay only £4 per hour. That's nothing to do with the government only to do with criminal employers.
I'm sorry that gillybob's business is one of those that fell through the various safety nets. SiL' s been flat out trying to work his way through the maze of grants and loans and keeping his business going and staff employed.
My friend was just saying this week that we're the lucky ones. We're retired and used to our fixed pension income and have saved over the past few months due to not being able to get out and buy much beyond groceries. Obviously we've been frittering cash before now! Those missed coffees and lunches out have added up.
There were queues for all the shops at our local shopping centre this morning. Some people must want to spend spend spend.

Slavery is no longer consigned to the history books I'm afraid and those statues should have stayed put as a reminder to the general public that it still exits !!

Stinks of double-standards somehow.

I say this because I read that some poor beggars working in a factory in this country were receiving £4 an hour !! Slavery ??
How disgusting is that. ? This is 2020 and we have those in government telling people to spend spend . What ?

Exactly, Gillybob. If everyone was paid an amount commensurate with todays cost of living then there'd be no need for poverty of any kind and neither would the economy suffer. The government have got it all wrong.

What about those of us who don’t have the money to shop and spend ? The ones that the government left behind while they were “saving” businesses ?