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Originally Posted by andyl
They are low paid, they deserve their holidays. Simple as that.
The small business I used to work for got 30k just to relocate, within the same borough, from the premises the boss's pension fund owned to another building he was buying (I won't mention the Beamer and TT!). Small business gets plenty of help and likes to moan plenty. If life that's hard for them they can always get a low wage job with no BH entitlement.
I worked hard, continue to work hard, and don't get paid BHs as such, but that does not stop me agreeing that others, and in particular the low paid, should get them as a right.
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You might find it easy others don't, particularly in the low wage economy where rights can be scarce. Your attitude, if I may speak almost frankly, whiffs a little! It's not a sin to show a bit of compassion and a sense of justice you know 
EDIT: Your post reminded me a little of that Monty Python Yorkshiremen sketch; "I worked, hard, six, seven, eight days a week, with only one clog between us...... You had a clog, you were lucky...." 
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Popular around where?!!
Companies seem to be doing very nicely thank you very much. Shame they keep coming out with the begging bowl for grants, tax breaks, allowances etc Scrounging sods! |
I'm only picking up on one point.
Not all companies get money to relocate, one of my friends runs a business employing himself, wife, one engineer and a young technician. He can get sod all, and was renting space off a company for about 10 years. In the past two years he has moved house to a premises that has a large outbuilding to run his business from, he has some very innovative designs, and his products are lifesaving.
However the companied that get relocation help in our area are the ones like.
Trico.
Windscreen wiper manufacturer, they got Millions in WDA/government grant to open a factory in my area. They made all the employees redundant in their London location and sold off the land/building. They have recently announced redundancies here so they can move production to the far east.
LG Electronics.
Again WDA/Government grants for Millions to set up a factory in South Wales. The local authority got millions to build a road, and houses were purchased near the site when residents complained. The local colleges got huge grants to set-up dummy production lines, flow soldering machines, pick and place machines etc, the company hardly sent anyone on the courses. The local authority demolished a grade 1 listed building to make way for the factory.
I understand the agreement for the factory was X number of years, the Koreans pulled out of the scheme and only ever operated a small prt of the one factory they had custom built by taxpayers money. They had another factory that had 24hr security paid for by the taxpayer, and they never even set foot in it, I understand that under the agreement the WDA could not offer the factory to any other company until the agreement was up.
Wireless Systems International.
Again big WDA/Government grants and a purpouse built factory, they never actually produced a product. The whole thing closed leaving hundreds without a job.
The 30K you talk about is cheicken feed compared to the hundreds of millions given away to foreign companies who set up and move on after the grants and free rent finishes.