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Originally Posted by steve B
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Originally Posted by Balticfox
To say everyone should be paid what their "worth" presupposes that there can be some objective determinant of the value of some individual's labour and that the individual must then be paid that amount. This is nonsense. The value of any individual's labour cannot be objectively determined by an outside party. And for pay rates/scales to be enforced would be an Orwellian nightmare.
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The second paragraph I was totally against it until the outside party bit. |
To put it very precisely I'm absolutely opposed to the government being involved in determining and enforcing pay scales. That should be decided by mutual agreement between the employer and employee, i.e. determined in the marketplace.