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muriel_volestrangler

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17. Here's an idea: fine the employer the difference between the CEO's pay and the employee's

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2015, 08:45 AM

May 2015

So, if it's one guy who earns £15,000, and employed an assistant at £10,000 for a year, he's fined £5,000; if it's a company whose CEO gets £300,000, and they employed workers at £8,000 for a year, they're fined £292,000. For each worker.

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Wages paid to illegal immigrants will be confiscated by the police, says David Cameron [View all] Newsjock May 2015 OP

How about take the company's profits they made off of illegal workers instead of a bloomington-lib May 2015 #1

exactly! n/t wildbilln864 May 2015 #5

WhatdafucksamatterU? Those companies is what made the U.K., Hoppy May 2015 #7

Because the objective is to make the poor & desperate Jackpine Radical May 2015 #9

Wage theft is better for Crony Capitalist! imthevicar May 2015 #13

Exactly! LeftishBrit May 2015 #15

Hmm. davidthegnome May 2015 #2

Notice that only the poor saps will feel the brunt of this policy. Businesses get off scot free. PSPS May 2015 #3

Next up: Expedited death penalty for children of illegal immigrants. DRoseDARs May 2015 #4

Reverse Robinhood - How Nice Of You Cameron DallasNE May 2015 #6

Absolutely appalling. Outright theft of wages. closeupready May 2015 #8

Does he plan to yank the gold from their teeth too? Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #10

Thatcher wanna be olddots May 2015 #11

Nigel Farage will be soooo pleased! mackerel May 2015 #12

You know the usual suspects DonCoquixote May 2015 #14

Good idea, punish the worker by taking away miniscule wages that were earned through honest labor. Nitram May 2015 #16

Here's an idea: fine the employer the difference between the CEO's pay and the employee's muriel_volestrangler May 2015 #17

I don't understand why companies in the UK hire illegal immigrants. Beauregard May 2015 #18

Uh, right... freebrew May 2015 #19