More Mintoffian economics: tal-biza
So this is how they’re planning to keep to their promise to find work even for those who leave school with no qualifications: a separate minimum wage for ‘zghazagh’ that’s even lower than the actual minimum wage.
Q. So when is a minimum wage not a minimum wage?
A. When there’s another minimum wage that’s even lower.
Q. Do Edward Scicluna and his Neo-Mintoffian party know the meaning of discrimination and the fact that it is illegal?
A. No. Clearly not.
Q. If it is acceptable to find more work for young people by making it legally permissible to pay them less than the minimum wage, will the Labour Party also be employing the same measures with women and blacks?
A. Obviously, because if they consider it legal and acceptable to do this to young people, they will consider it legal and acceptable to do it to women and blacks.
Need to get more women into the Labour market? Introduce a lower minimum wage for ladies of a certain age, say over the age of 40.
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Daphne, as you say: Tal-Biza.
Is this guy for real?
And will Labour introduce a lower minimum wage in Gozo?
It was Joseph Muscat who said that he has “controversial plans for Gozo.”
And it was also him who said “Xoghol f’Ghawdex ghal-Ghawdxin.”
Ciccio, when a scheming slithering poser is tagged “Profs”, there really is no hope of ever challenging his imbecilities. That’s Malta for you. Kullhadd Profs u Ing u Perit u Dottore u Doktor u nejk iehor.
Xi dwejjaq.
Q. So is Labour promising a minimum wage freeze?
A. At best, yes. At worst, Labour may even be proposing to lower the minimum wage.
This is fundamentally wrong, what he’s proposing is the institution of discrimination between individuals who perform the same job.
Lowering work conditions to satisfy whose demands? Something tells me the Chinese have commenced with their diktats.
Labour, I keep on saying it. Remember December 1981.
People forget – so please, remind us of Dec 81
I swear that I have tried my best not to place any political messages on my Facebook wall but this clip by Edward Scicluna PL is the icing on my cake.
I ask the younger generation to listen to this ‘economist’ who is proposing to create two minimum wages, one for ‘iz-zghazagh’ as he says it, and another one for everybody else.
This is a knife with two edges.
So young people will be exploited and will be paid less than older people, and older people, let us say those that are over 40 will suffer in an employment market where they will not be selected to work due to their age, and due to the fact that the younger generation will cost less to a company.
WAKE UP people, this is what they are telling us that they will do, imagine what they are not telling us.
It’s what happened in Italy when measures to ‘enhance flexibility’ were introduced. A nightmare scenario with over 20 different types of contract resulting in underpaid graduates and their parents unemployed, one incredible mess.
Paga minima A, paga minima B.
L-istependi spiccaw.
Dan x’cuc hu ?
Dan min ghamlu professur?
Ma naghmlux mod li sar professur fil-golden years hux ?
This guy is worse than the worst elements of Mintoff and KMB put together.
it seems that they are also hinting at removal of the stipends, as according to the Prof. they are so low as to be useless.
Does Labour realise that the segmentation of the labour market into two age groups has aid to stall the Spanish, Italian and French economies?
How many more times do we have to hear young Southern Europeans speaking of a gerontocracy, of being unable to find a job which is not temporary in nature?
Prof. Scicluna is obviously aware of this. The end result of segmentation is a sclerotic labour market – “insiders with permanent jobs and outsiders in temporary work,” as The Economist puts it.
It’s already a tough sell trying to make some would be employers appreciate the implications of our skills as younger workers – be they computer literacy or whatever.
As a note, I’d love to see an employer offering me a lower wage based on the one fact that I’m too young. I’d be laughing all the way to the door.
The one consolation is that, as a zaghzugh, Joey the Teflon Magician will join us and live on half a pittance.
CHEAP LABOUR – pun intended.
Daphne, to my knowledge employers are already allowed to give younger workers a minimum wage which is lower than the one for Adults. I think the cut off age is 18 and then there is a minimum wage for 17 year olds and one for younger workers. So if they are proposing this as a means to employ more young workers then they are a few years late in their thinking… I would assume this was not something that was recently enacted but is probably something created ages ago.
No, they aren’t proposing a wage freeze, but it is actually worse than that becasue they are creating a distinctive lower platform minimum wage.
Trid tisma’ u tara biex temmen; mela il-profs qed jghid li jkun hemm zewg pagi minimi u milli stajt nifhem ,iz-zghazagh ikollom paga minima inqas mill-kbar.
Jekk wiehed bla skola ikun irid impjieg u ma jkunx zaghzugh m’ghandu l-ebda cans li jsib impjieg; ghax min se jippreferi ‘cleaner’ imdahhal fiz-zmien b’paga iktar (u bil-kuntratti ta’ sena), min wiehed zghazugh, jew refugjat b’paga inqas?
Biex inkunu ghidna kollox ,din il-mizura taghti lok ghal-iktar abbuz milli hawn bhalissa, ghax il-kumpaniji jibdew jimpjegaw liz-zghar bl-inqas paga minima u ftit qabel ma jkunu se jigu intitulati ghal-paga minima tal-kbar jitkeccew u jiddahhlu zghazagh ohra minn flokom.
Kif se jzomm liz-zghazagh tal-pajjizi tal-eks blokk komunista u li huma membri tal Unjoni Ewropeja milli jigu jahdmu Malta ghal-paga li ghalihom hi tajba? Kif se jnaqqas studenti Ewropej fis-sajf milli jigu Malta biex jiehdu l-gobbijiet taz-zghazagh Maltin?
F’kelma wahda jekk jitla’ l-Labour immorru minn got-tagen ghal gon-nar. Mal-Labour il-haddiem se jitjassar.
Il-Profs Scicluna lanqas ghandu hjiel ta’ x’ghandu bzonn l-“under dog” li qal li tant ihobb.
Labour won’t work …u bil-provi.
This man has a seat in the European Parliament. Do his fellow MEPs – not just the Maltese ones – know that he’s promoting discrimination and violation of the law?
One has to add that the Labour Party, in particular Edward Scicluna, have been targeting education costs for a while in order to finance the short term benefits such as the VAT refund on cars and the the subsidies on water waste. Edward Scicluna repeated the proposal to cut expenditure on education (infrastructure, stipends, and expansion of the sector) repeatedly, both in public, but also in closed meetings with foreign rating agencies.
They simply see expenditure on education as a waste, since the benefits are not instantly visible or tangible within a five-year period. Plus, deep down, they know that a high degree of educated population decreases the chances of a Labour being elected.
They are ready to forgo the long-term benefit of the country (and consequently the economy) to finance short-term and greedy cash benefits with no or little return to the economy as a whole.
I hear that Scicluna received his PhD from the University of Toronto. Since I also attended that fine institution, I am ashamed that this kind of thinking could be associated with my alma mater.
As said somewhere else – they do not NEED either planning or roadmaps. All they care about is getting to Castille.b And I think with the present intellectual capacity of the Maltese, the PL MIGHT even do it.
I am convinced that if elected to run the country (down the hill) then all they need (I mean the Labour supporters) is a valid PL membership card and a job is immediately on line – for get Edward Scicluna – we have been through this already – but I think people easily forget when it itakes some time to replace the electricity bulb outside thwir house