TUESDAY JULY 14 CH4 LIVE. RACING POST 2015
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Taking a Closer look at Horseracing
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PM in bid to
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The
government is to press ahead with plans to force large firms to disclose data
on the gender pay gap among staff.
Daily Politics
BBC2 12.00 to 1.00pm
presented by Jo Coburn and Andrew Neil
Pause for Thought
Living wage puts stable staff pay in
spotlight:
Lee Mottershead writes:
“REGARDLESS of where one stands politically, it
was at least possible to welcome George Osborne’s Budget announcement on a
national living wage, it should even in a limited way help some of those in
Britain who work hardest for the smallest rewards. Among that number are many
stable staff, who will start to get more but actually merit much more.
“The current national minimum wage of £6.50 an
hour will, in effect, rise to £7.20 in April although only for those over 25 –
with the government setting a target of increasing the figure to £9 by 2020.
Given all they do, and all they sacrifice in order to do it, if stable staff
are not deemed worthy of £9 per hour, this sport is in a very sorry state.
“In responding to the announcement, the National
Trainers Federation, with which the National Association of Stable Staff (nass) negotiates to achieve minimum rates of
pay, delivered a perfectly balanced response. It was argued the need to
increase employers’ pay could widen polarization between trainers , and that
could indeed be a risk, but it is difficult to justify the survival in business
of some yards if their existence is predicated
on stable staff being paid grossly
inadequate sums.
“As has been well documented, there is a stable
staff crisis, stemming from a shortage of suitably qualified individuals. In
Newmarket, where competition for the best human talent is greatest, that has
led to wages rising fastest, but elsewhere the situation is not nearly so
positive.
“Outside of Newmarket, Nass states the average
weekly wage for a senior ride/groom/yard worker is £322 per week. To estimate
pay per hour one must take into account that staff will have only one clear day
off every two weeks, creating a theoretical rota schedule of 45 hours’ labour
one week followed by 40 the following week. That means the average pay for a
typical employee is £7.58 per hour. This is better than April’s new minimum of
£7.20 but still classes skilled horsemen and women, who on a daily basis are
responsible for riding and looking after exceptionally valuable animals,
as-low-pay workers.
“It is surely not good enough. In part, the financial
imbursement of stable staff is based on the traditions of an ancient
master-servant relationship that thankfully is largely no longer replicated in
terms of the personal interactions between trainers and grooms. There are many
trainers who work hard to pay every bit as much as the possibly can, but there
are inevitably others who will honour the minimum amount required- and no more.
“In a sport in which some of the population’s
wealthiest constituents own and race thoroughbreds, it is difficult to justify
members of the sport’s cor workforce, on
which the entire industry’s survival is based, receiving wages that make them
commensurate with the country’s poorest-paid unskilled workers. Many in the profession are involved because
the adore horses and racing. That love should not be abused.
“Naas, an enthusiastic supporter of the proposed ‘racing
right’, believes a talented and effective groom should receive £500 per week,
equivalent to £26, 000 per year. That is a long way from where we are now. It
is no distance at all from where we should be. If last week’s budget
announcement is even a small step towards a perfectly legitimate aim being realised,
the industry will be in better, more defensible and less embarrassing position.
“
JMC:
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