In the Daily Record by Paul Hutcheon last week:
Anas Sarwar has said he would “love” for Holyrood to have control over the minimum wage and workers’ rights in the first term of a Labour Government.
The Scottish Labour leader said devolving employment law would help set a “race to the top” for basic rights.
Scottish Labour supports the devolution of employment law, but Starmer’s team has yet to agree the policy.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/anas-sarwar-would-love-power-31365020
Not in the Daily Record by Paul Hutcheon last week, this:
ANAS Sarwar has been branded a hypocrite after it was revealed his family’s wholesale business still does not pay staff the living wage.
Sarwar relinquished all of his shares in United Wholesale (Scotland) six years ago after criticism of its wage policies, but his wife, mother and children all continue to benefit from the profits of the firm.
Sarwar said in 2017 he had received assurances his family company wanted to transition to a “real living wage” for employees, but one role recently advertised by the firm requires someone to work a minimum of 45 hours per week between Monday and Saturday as a forklift operator with pay of just £10.58 per hour.
This is below the Scottish Living Wage – which is estimated to be £10.90 – and only 16p per hour over the minimum wage.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23848488.anas-sarwars-family-business-still-not-pay-living-wage/
And remember, that’s for a skilled worker. What do the production line workers get?
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It’s so difficult being in government when you also are involved in a business trying to pretend you care about the workers when at the same time trying to pay them as little as possible and maximise yer profits , recently some of the biggest businesses in the U.K. were found to be paying their staff below the minimum wage and yes you guessed right , they all said they didn’t know and it was just an innocent mistake.
Believe it if you like , i dont , you can’t run a business without knowing what you pay your staff.
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“Not in the Daily Record by Paul Hutcheon last week”
That’s because they are a sub division of the Labour branch office in Scotland…….The Labour Daily Record…….mind you that would not work as a title when one considers Labour’s RECORD via both the branch office and HQ……..as I think we can all highlight their RECORD as a party and as governments……both as the UK and too via their branch offices via their stint as a former devolved one in Scotland (to include coalition with the Lib Dems) and too currently in Wales as the devolved government……not a RECORD to be proud of is it…….but one must pretend one stands on a moral high horse as one who is far more superior to others……alas evidence contradicts that…..as do we.
Sarwar denies a ‘Living wage’ to his workers as he prefers to ‘LIVE OFF’ them…typical Toryish behaviour….as is his hypocrisy and double standards…..and too the Daily Record……….and we all know what happens to Labour’s promises and pledges do we not and too The Daily Record’s front page ‘VOWS’…….all filed under ‘S**** (rhymes with PLIGHT) we promoted and promised but had no intention of ensuring any of it was fulfilled’……also referred to by us as an example of SOME in Scotland who were willing to be fooled once while still feeling no shame in their being fooled…however it appears NOW that you can STILL fool SOME of the same ones not just twice but MORE than twice and still they will feel no SHAME…….that is quite worrying but one does have to remember the power of the press and their manipulation of those people who are perhaps more susceptible to brainwashing and propaganda…..for reasons that are many but to me inexplicable justification for condemning EVERYONE else in their own country to stay in a such a dysfunctional state governed by Bobby dancers that includes both corrupt politicians and a corrupt media !!!!
Oh well each to their own (LOL but really hollow laughter)….but what a (bad) ‘choice’ to make……
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How unfair on Sarwar !
He can’t just ask his wife or his mother to pay the workers a decent wage .
He is only the husband and son , respectively , of these two women , so has little or no influence on them .
And , he has to wait for Sir Kid Starver giving him the OK to say ANYTHING about ANYTHING !
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Maybe he can ask Starmer if his business can pay the Living wage.
He waits for his “grand orders” on everything else
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We learn from the Record that: ‘Anas Sarwar has said he would “love” for Holyrood to have control over the minimum wage and workers’ rights in the first term of a Labour Government.’
And we’re told: ‘The Scottish Labour leader said devolving employment law would help set a “race to the top” for basic rights.Scottish Labour supports the devolution of employment law, but Starmer’s team has yet to agree the policy.’
Quite a lot tied up in these two paragraphs!
Did Labour (with other Unionists) not resist further extension to devolution in the area of employment powers in the Smith Commission after IndyRef1? Did Labour not deny Scotland agency over what the Record is here referring to as ‘BASIC RIGHTS’?
Is Mr Sarwar implying that working people and Trade Unionists here since Scotland in 2014 voted against self-determination, against agency for Holyrood, have been in a ‘race to the bottom’ or her just experienced a huge opportunity cost? Would he acknowledge that MSPs, thanks in part to Mr Sarwar’s party, have been unable to do more than ‘mitigate’ and then only at the expense of other areas of devolved expenditure? ‘Better together’ in the intervening years?
He and his Scottish branch may wish for further devolution but as the Record notes, that’s not in the gift of Labour in Scotland – regardless of how may MSPs across the political spectrum in Holyrood may want it. What Labour in England decides, Labour in Scotland will just need to suck it up! What England wants in terms of a Westminster government that’s a Westminster that Scotland will get in all probability.
And anyway, for how long will what England wants and gets result in a Labour government in Westminster, one that Mr Sarwar would favour for Scotland? How long before the Tories return to power because that’s what England wants and gets yet again?
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