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points by gste 1 day ago | 0 comments
Labour's approach to problems is to tax employers into oblivion and then say "the reason salaries are so low is because we didn't ban them from posting adverts without salary disclosure".
[–] hdgvhicv 1 day ago
How is this taxing companies? They already have the data.
[–] gste 1 day ago
To be clear, I mean employment is already taxed extremely highly.

Burnham put cost of living as his highest priority, then this is the kind of measures he comes out with. If you think more red tape and bureaucracy is going to help then I've got nothing.

[–] hdgvhicv 1 day ago
This isn’t red tape or bureaucracy though. Many things are, but not this. Infact it actually reduces waste for both comapnies and citizens because they won’t have people applying who will turn down due to the salary.
[–] gste 1 day ago
Forcing employers to declare information is bureaucracy.

The opposite to bureaucracy is allowing them to approach hiring however they see fit.

[–] hdgvhicv 1 day ago
Hardly an “excessively complicated administrative procedure”
[–] gampleman 1 day ago
In modern Britain it's death by a thousand cuts for anyone brave enough to start a business in this regulatory environment.
[–] postexitus 1 day ago
Opposite to bureaucracy is cash in hand and paying no taxes - that will make the businesses boom.
[–] postexitus 1 day ago
Advertising salaries upfront lifts the salaries. Study a bit harder man, you will make it.
[–] blitzar 1 day ago
Unlike the other side (tm) ...

Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting (Conservative Party 2017)

Pay Transparency Pilot (Conservative Party 2022) - (Participating employers only) list salary ranges on all job adverts and stop asking applicants for their salary history during recruitment

[–] gampleman 1 day ago
That's why they call it the uniparty after all.
[–] blitzar 1 day ago
For some reason cultists get all excited that one particular person is single handedly destroying everything that is great and true - by doing the same thing their lord and saviour does.

This political timeline is the worst.

[–] ChrisRR 1 day ago
You're really clutching at straws to spin this pro-employee move into some way to claim that Labour are bad