If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
Hello everyone, I'm new here, and I'm actually in Lanzarote but thinking of moving to Tenerife. I'm Italian, lived in London for 10 years, done a bit of traveling then moved to Lanzarote 3 years ago, although I moved back to London for winter the previous 2.
Yes, wages in the Canary Islands may be lower than the UK, but that's already less true now that euro and pound sterling have pretty much the same value. Most importantly, when I was in London my wages may have been higher, but by the time I'd pay rent, transport, food and cigarettes I would barely make it to the end of the month. Here if I can get 1,000 a month my quality of life is way higher than it would be in the UK with 1500, and this is the way I look at it.
What I find awful here is how workers are barely protected, how employers try to work their way out of a contract and you end up finding yourself in deep shit everytime you're let down, especially considering most jobs are seasonal. There's a form of unemployement benefit here, which is way more reasonable than the UK where we pay taxes for people who don't wanna get out of bed and decide they have cronic fatigue syndrome and get incapacity. It's proportioned to the time you have worked, so that if you have a few bad months in winter and it's not your fault you can survive if you've worked your a**e off all summer. The problem is you often end up working cash because there's nothing else and when summer is over you've got nothing. And this is where I am now.
About quality of staff, service and so on, for years the Canary Islands have been relying on fresh tourists every week for most of the year, and they didn't care if they wouldn't go back to their restaurant, bar, hotel, dive centre and so on, 'cause they would get new ones every week. With this crisis things are probably gonna change, business owners will have to do their best to get the locals, regulars, returning customers. I'm into diving and on this island so far dive centres only cared about dsds, now the only ones still making a living are those who built relationships with clubs and regulars, and the others are standing there astonished wondering what to do next.
I may be going off topic here... However, what I wanted to say is this is probably one of the few places where, as long as you have a full time contract of some kind, you can pay your rent and bills and still go out for a drink and buy a pair of shoes without touching your credit card. It's a lot right now. Again, as long as you have a damn contract...
The Following 7 Users Say Thank You to BettyBoop For This Useful Post:
A very warm welcome to our forum family Don't forget to make a post in the introductions thread, more people will see you there and don't forget to tell us about yourself.
In the meantime enjoy
__________________
'You cannot direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails'
Location: Tenerife....The land of the endless summer
Posts: 973
Thanks: 561
Thanked 663 Times in 387 Posts
Re: Why are rates of pay so low in Tenerife
Quote:
Originally Posted by mopeeps
Why are rates of pay so low in Tenerife?
Isn't there a minimum wage by law?
All I ever see are jobs advertised at 5 or 6 euros an hour, that is so low.
mopeeps
that´s 5 or 6 pounds an hour now
Warraboutit
__________________ 9 PLUS INSTALACIONES Start saving up to 25% on your electricity bills CLICK HERE . TENERIFE SELF STORAGE
Electrical Installations, Projects, Test & Inspections,
CERTIFICATIONS, Boletines, C.I, Certificado de instalación, C.A.I, OCA, Luces de obra, Builders supplies, Upgrades & All procedures for UNELCO.
Re: Why are rates of pay so low in Tenerife 
Don't forget to make a post in the introductions thread, more people will see you there and don't forget to tell us about yourself.
Linear Mode
