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Mum gets paid £2per hr
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Once a week my mum works in a chinese, she earns £2 per hour. Is there anything I can do about this? She's the type that doesnt want to kick up a fuss over anything but the cooks and owners treat her like shit and last night I actually heard them say to her, "bernie you so stupid" because she hadn't wrote 1/2 on an order or something. She left school with no formal qualifications but I've urged her to quit this job and get some GCSEs or something. Who can I report these people to? (if I can at all)
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So...she thinks she owes it to them or something stupid. Bastards. I told her I'd pay her what she earns for an 8 hour shift if she leaves after New Year. Just makes me feel helpless and shit - that's my bloody mum! :mad:
Nope, she just works as a writer-downer of orders. :no:
Then, I know here, unless you make tips they *have* to pay you at least the minimum wage. You can sue for rightly earned, unearned wages. As I said, I'm not sure about there, but that is highly illegeal. That business could get shut down, the owners sued.
I would definatly take it to some law dude person thing, whatever you have there. A governmental official person, even more than a lawyer. But ask your mother for proof, a pay stub where it shows how much an hour she earns, other wise without the upfront proof, they may not do much about it.
Thats just as illegeal. Getting paid under the table. Do you have taxes taken out of your paychecks there? If you do, then I can bet alot of people are going to care if you mention they are getting paid like that
So I guess I can't do anything about it anyway.
She could be doing a job on the sly, we've all done 'em.
Thats how they get you though. They get you for doing sly work. In a tax course I took, they had a section explaining jobs like drug dealing and such. The money you make is taxable income and if you dont include that in your taxes they get you for fraud. I found out, if you give away free samples, thats a write off. A "gift."
i know of a drug dealer who was recently prosecuted in the durham area, who got off from fraud, cause he gave his 'employees' pay slips, and had a set amount of money to give to the inland revenue, if he ever dd get busted, which he did
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She stated that her mother does not recieve tips though.
Some mothers are like that though .. they have little ambition .. my mum does filing, etc and earns a pretty ordinary wage, however she speaks about 7 languages .. and for years I told her she could be earning a fortune translating .. but she wasn't very keen.
I doubt if she'd pay any tax on only £2 an hour, so she have any other skills?
Writing down orders doesn't sound like a very skilled job but maybe she has other skills she could turn into a job.
Do you have a father on the scene?