What classifies a low skilled job
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Labourers, fruit pickers that kind of thing
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There's no such thing as low-skilled jobs, just badly paid ones
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Being unable to do five keepy-ups
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taxi drivers as well seemingly, security guards as well.
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All jobs require you to be skilled, otherwise you’d do a bad job and be fired, ‘low skilled job’ is just an invented classification to justify the most needy being paid the least possible amount |
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i cant copy link on this laptop cause im old, but check out the latest ONS figures on low skilled workers and covid.
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yep, it's really debatable. i even know kitchen porters who get like £11 an hour :skull:
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It's an insulting term that shouldn't be used.
Most of these 'unskilled' workers are the ones that have kept this country running the past couple of months |
Trying to determine the skill level of a job based on salary is absolutely ridiculous, I have no idea where the government got that idea from. I mean... it's really, really daft.
When I worked for t'bookies I had area/regional managers who were on higher salaries than newly qualified doctors/lawyers etc. and I swear some of these people are thick as two short planks. Like you could train any reasonably intelligent teen fresh out of school to do their job in under 6 months. They got the job by virtue of "being there a really long time". But going by income, they're more "skilled" than a junior doctor, or an experienced Band 6 nurse. Some people with plenty of skill and education will have a starting salary of under £25k. Yes, it usually goes up relatively quickly but the point remains; for the first few years after training, most skilled staff's wages will fall in the "unskilled" category. Meanwhile actual slack-jawed yokels can easily get to around, say, the £40k mark through just determination and plugging away... no real skill required. |
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In my day unskilled just meant none professional.
Pot washer, unskilled. Chef/cook skilled. Nothing demeaning meant by it. |
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Low-skilled is the common term I always hear rather than unskilled. There's just been a change in how those jobs are referred to in recent years, which is rather disparaging. |
Deskilling is a tack used to justify underpaying.
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But the retail and service sector in this country simply refuses to increase pay based on skill or experience... it's a flat rate that goes up with promotion, and that's it. No wage negotiation, no annual increase, very rarely performance related bonuses. It's the ONE aspect of employment that the US at least does get right - it's very common for an experienced, skilled member of staff who has been with a company for years to be able to have a sit down with their line manager and ask for a raise, simply based on their experience level. Doesn't exist here. A staff member with 5 years experience is paid the same as someone on their first day, whist doing three times the work twice as fast. It's stupid. I will (I hope to god) never work retail again. |
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