States pay below poverty line

Friday 18th April 2008, 2:29PM BST.

Sewage cart drivers talk about the States’ 3% offer.

HUNDREDS of States employees are receiving pay below the island’s poverty line.
A 2002 Townsend Report revealed that the net wage for workers in the lowest four out of seven pay grades was less than £300 a week, putting them in a position of severe deprivation.

In presentations to States manual workers on Wednesday, Unite representatives showed the findings of the report, alongside statistics outlined in the manual workers’ pay and conditions survey, which was commissioned by the States.

‘All the figures are based on methods laid down by the government and uses information they’ve gathered, so it’s not just something we picked out of the sky,’ said union member and States electrician John Mitchell, who compiled the information.

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Nathan aylett

April 18, 2008 at 3:15 pm

How about the states pay for all islanders to connect to main drain system,which will in turn do away with all the un hygenic,smelly yellow trucks which tear around our country lanes,money spent out but long term best idea all round.

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