Workplaces & Working Week
WORKPLACE INFORMATION
On large new development sites, there is a need for industrial workshops, we as a nation should be looking at what we import and ask ‘can we produce this here?’ In most cases the answer will be yes. If this means paying £10 an hour in wages, we need to create a means of being able to live on that wage. Again a Trust could be in control of any new industrial units.
For example: We have someone who paid £100,000 for three large work units 20 years ago.
The tenants have all paid £100,000 in rent over the twenty years. Now the owner wants to close the work units down and get planning permission for housing. This is a brownfield site, that should remain an employment place.
There should be work units on all large developments where a Council or Trust owns the land, and the value is to be no more than 10 time agricultural value, e.g. max £100,000.The three tenants would pay one third each, e.g. £33,333.No more rent rises, when they leave, they will get their money back. They then can charge less for the goods or services they provide.
High Street shops that have closed should be purchased by a Trust set up by the Government to release to the above system. The same should be true of local pubs.
WORKING WEEK
In the Sixties, it was said that by the end of the century, there would not be enough work for half of the working population. Yet no one has really thought this through.
I feel that we should be looking at flexible times and possibly a four-day working week. That would take 20% of the traffic off the road in the rush hour straight away. Office space should be incorporated into all new housing plans as the internet has eliminated the need to travel so far to work. With a new cheaper homes scheme, lower incomes would be sufficient. Job sharing should be encouraged to lower unemployment numbers and ample leisure activities should be available for all age groups. The 16-19 age group with no job could join a kind of national service. We could reduce the number of working days in the week on an age related basis i.e. maybe at 50 you work a 4 day week and at 60 a three day working week, not have to work until you are 70.
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