THERE IS A HELL! - - - IT IS CALLED RETAIL THERE IS A HELL AND IT IS CALLED RETAIL!

19 other companies are usually the best ones, and the employees that stick around the longest are the ones who can't get hired into a better position. This is unfortunately the way things go unless, of course, you have a happy workplace which seems to be both the first cause and last word for most challenges in the retail workplace today. Where a growing number of retail workers stand on the National Minimum Wage hike is not complacently behind a cash register wearing their company-issued polyester garb. Instead, where retail and restaurant workers are standing on the issue of increased National Minimum Wages is on the sidewalks of all cities and towns - outside of the front door of their retail employer, with matching t-shirts and ponchos, holding protest signs. Unfortunately, where frontline workers have chosen to take a stand is on a picket line far beyond any President or Prime Minister’s proposed National Minimum Wage line in the sand that lawmakers are unwilling to approach. Retail workers who want to make sure that lawmakers know exactly where they stand on the National Minimum Wage issue are not waiting for a Gallup Poll or Harris Survey to ask them. The sad truth what really sucks in the Retail Business today is the introduction of “National Minimum Wage (UK£6.31)”, and I am not talking about a ‘living wage (UK£7.65)! Unfortunately most companies today pay new entremets only a ‘National Minimum Wage’, the price structure rate for 2013 being:a) Adults get UK£6.31 an hour b) 18-20 year olds get UK£5.03 an hour c) 16-17 year olds get UK£3.72 an hour d) Apprentices get UK£2.68 an hour Now a question I have asked many times and no one has been able give me a satisfactory answer: - When does the cost of li ٥

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