How much is the pension in these wonderful gig-jobs?
Maybe people don't consider these jobs because they're absolute shit jobs? Maybe people should be political and all that stuff about their jobs
What a shit take from someone in his position
Yes, there is a lot of complaining about the "economically inactive", but little said about they they might be inactive.
The UK labour market has been too far skewed towards low pay, low quality, and low skill, it shouldn't be any surprise those that can make do without employment don't seek it. The only way to properly address that is to encourage our economy to see workers as an investment again.
Mel Stride can suck my wrinkled, slightly brown, 53 year old dick.
Get on yer bike you lazy inactive bastard 😉
It reads like a satirical piece... Wow
I wish I was shocked reading things like this but really nothing surprises me anymore now.
Satire has been dead so long it will soon start being excavated by archaeologists.
Alternative headline "Pensions secretary suggests you just keep working crappy jobs on poverty wages till you die"
What a wanker. What "lifestyle" choices does he think people are making here that are funded by deliveroo deliveries?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mel Stride made the comments during a visit to the London headquarters of the food delivery firm Deliveroo, which has recorded a 62% increase in riders aged over 50 since 2021.
In an interview with the Times during the visit, Stride said these flexible jobs offered “great opportunities” and that it was “good for people to consider options they might not have otherwise thought of”.
On the recently introduced digital “mid-life MOTs”, which are designed to help older workers with financial planning, health guidance and career skills, Stride said: “You really do need to sensibly stop, take where you are in life, and assess whether, for example, you’ve got enough money to get you through with the kind of lifestyle and living standards that you’re expecting.”
Analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank found that nearly half of older people who dropped out of the workforce at the start of the pandemic were struggling financially.
This should include fostering working cultures which were not “all about politics and all that kind of stuff”, though he noted that older people could have the life experience to cope with such environments.
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