Businesses the have acted the cnut during the Coronavirus Outbreak

[delgany]

Gordon Taylor,  Professional Footballers Players Union , CEO, negotiating on players behalf re: pay cut. He earns £2 million a year , did he set a good example and take a pay cut ...did he fk!

[armaghniac]

Gordon Taylor,  Professional Footballers Players Union , CEO, negotiating on players behalf re: pay cut. He earns £2 million a year , did he set a good example and take a pay cut ...did he fk!

Doctors are well paid, but do work for it. by times. This guy gets 10 times what a top doctor gets and for what, exactly?

Mick McCarthy got over a million for ending his contract. Again this seems like an unnecessarily large sum.

[brokencrossbar1]

Still no confirmation on Furlough - this was a great sound bite but is going to cause a colossal fall out

that's the 80% salary payment? Spoke to a close relative today (Derry area). Says the payment arrived into the same bank account he pays his rates from this morning. Covered until the end of June I think

PS: had never heard the term furlough before this Corona malarky

It's mostly an American concept but has been used over here whenever members of the military would have returned from overseas back in the 19th century. This is the first time it has been in widespread use

[GetOverTheBar]

What about the home rates? Was there to be a freeze on those?

Think Conor Murphy said the Stormont part of your rates bill (don't know what % that is) was being suspended. Council bit still stands I think.

With a lot of people losing their jobs, some on 80% of their normal wages and some service you pay rates for not working at full potential you'd think they at the very least take 20% off your bill?

Remember that is capped at a gross of £2500 a month so plenty of people are not getting 80% of their usual monthly salary.

If your earning north of 2500 a month your grand for money anyway, in real terms.

[mackers]

If your earning north of 2500 a month your grand for money anyway, in real terms.

No it doesn't. Depends if your other half is working and what your monthly overheads are.

[GetOverTheBar]

If your earning north of 2500 a month your grand for money anyway, in real terms.

No it doesn't. Depends if your other half is working and what your monthly overheads are.

Well, it's a figure not a lot of people will ever see per month. So taking overheads and whatever out of it - you have to accept its very, very high compared to what others might be faced with.

[JohnDenver]

I'm almost sure the £2500 is gross before any deductions are taken out of it.  Obviously still a hefty amount of money coming in as a wage, but it's only relative to your own personal situation. If you have a family to support and mortgage to pay, i wouldn't necessarily say "you're grand for money"

[LeoMc]

If your earning north of 2500 a month your grand for money anyway, in real terms.

No it doesn't. Depends if your other half is working and what your monthly overheads are.

Well, it's a figure not a lot of people will ever see per month. So taking overheads and whatever out of it - you have to accept its very, very high compared to what others might be faced with.

It is a take home of £30k, gross £41-42k. Better than average but if you have a mortgage of £900, car payments of £300, rates of £150 and another £150 on sky, broadband and mobile it starts to eat into it.

[Milltown Row2]

If your earning north of 2500 a month your grand for money anyway, in real terms.

No it doesn't. Depends if your other half is working and what your monthly overheads are.

Well, it's a figure not a lot of people will ever see per month. So taking overheads and whatever out of it - you have to accept its very, very high compared to what others might be faced with.

It is a take home of £30k, gross £41-42k. Better than average but if you have a mortgage of £900, car payments of £300, rates of £150 and another £150 on sky, broadband and mobile it starts to eat into it.

And a weekly shop of £200!

Glad to say our company has given us something that would be representative of our wages to a degree. Lucky my wife is a teacher also. But who knows what tomorrow brings

[gallsman]

Gordon Taylor,  Professional Footballers Players Union , CEO, negotiating on players behalf re: pay cut. He earns £2 million a year , did he set a good example and take a pay cut ...did he fk!

Doctors are well paid, but do work for it. by times. This guy gets 10 times what a top doctor gets and for what, exactly?

Mick McCarthy got over a million for ending his contract. Again this seems like an unnecessarily large sum.

Looking after the interests of his union members, something he does bloody well.

[GJL]

If your earning north of 2500 a month your grand for money anyway, in real terms.

No it doesn't. Depends if your other half is working and what your monthly overheads are.

Well, it's a figure not a lot of people will ever see per month. So taking overheads and whatever out of it - you have to accept its very, very high compared to what others might be faced with.

It is a take home of £30k, gross £41-42k. Better than average but if you have a mortgage of £900, car payments of £300, rates of £150 and another £150 on sky, broadband and mobile it starts to eat into it.

It is not take home though. It is £2.5k gross. Equates to £30k a year before tax, insurance, pension etc. Is deducted.  Very average. 

[ned]

If your earning north of 2500 a month your grand for money anyway, in real terms.

No it doesn't. Depends if your other half is working and what your monthly overheads are.

Well, it's a figure not a lot of people will ever see per month. So taking overheads and whatever out of it - you have to accept its very, very high compared to what others might be faced with.

It is a take home of £30k, gross £41-42k. Better than average but if you have a mortgage of £900, car payments of £300, rates of £150 and another £150 on sky, broadband and mobile it starts to eat into it.

It is not take home though. It is £2.5k gross. Equates to £30k a year before tax, insurance, pension etc. Is deducted.  Very average.

This! It equates to a take home of just over £1900 a month i.e. less than £500 per week. Still a decent wage but not astronomical.
Mortgage of £400, utilities £100, rates/council tax £100, insurances £100, etc. Probably leaves about £150 per week for essentials. Most would be  comfortable living on that but not a luxury lifestyle amount.

[LeoMc]

If your earning north of 2500 a month your grand for money anyway, in real terms.

No it doesn't. Depends if your other half is working and what your monthly overheads are.

Well, it's a figure not a lot of people will ever see per month. So taking overheads and whatever out of it - you have to accept its very, very high compared to what others might be faced with.

It is a take home of £30k, gross £41-42k. Better than average but if you have a mortgage of £900, car payments of £300, rates of £150 and another £150 on sky, broadband and mobile it starts to eat into it.

It is not take home though. It is £2.5k gross. Equates to £30k a year before tax, insurance, pension etc. Is deducted.  Very average.

I did not know it was gross. I had assumed when Government as paying it was a net fugure.

[illdecide]

Went into a fruit & veg shop there to get some broccoli for tomorrow's dinner. 4 small bunches were £5.60, the wife said that would have cost £2 - £3 in Tesco but they had none.
Yesterday the wife said a filling station charged her £4 for 2 kitchen rolls, she didn't realise until she was home.

[RedHand88]

Went into a fruit & veg shop there to get some broccoli for tomorrow's dinner. 4 small bunches were £5.60, the wife said that would have cost £2 - £3 in Tesco but they had none.
Yesterday the wife said a filling station charged her £4 for 2 kitchen rolls, she didn't realise until she was home.

Tesco have 10,000 stores and can bulk buy in a way the fruit and veg shop can only dream of.