You know what I am really sick of? Small business leaders appearing as talking heads on news programmes saying that employment law is
tooooo complicated and it's not fair and stamping their feet like Kevin the teenager. I have some proposals for nice simple easy to understand employment regulations:
- Minimum wage is a nice round ten pounds per hour
- Every worker who has a doctor's note proving they are ill is entitled to full pay until the doctor deems them fit to return to work.
- All workforces to be unionised, and any employers found employing non-union workers will be subject to prosecution*
All of these are a lot simpler and easier to understand than current employment regulations, and all of them would elicit howls of outrage from so-called small business leaders. You know why? Because when small business leaders says
this measure is too complicated
what they actually mean is
this measure might cost us money
. Well, you know what? If you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage and treat them like human being then maybe you might want to face the fact that your business doesn't deserve to survive.
* this is not an idea I would support, at least not unless unions become a lot freer and totally divorced from the Labour party, but you've got to admit, it's simple.
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