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MSE News: 'No gain' from minimum wage rises

Former_MSE_Helen
Former_MSE_Helen Posts: 2,382 Forumite
in Employment, jobseeking & training
"Low-paid workers will suffer a wage cut in real terms despite an increase from today in the national minimum wage ..."
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'No gain' from minimum wage rises

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  • scooby088
    scooby088 Posts: 3,385 Forumite
    I'd much rather be working for £6.19 per hour than god knows what an hour if the NMW was abolished.
  • System
    System Posts: 178,414 Community Admin
    10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    No different to a lot of other people who get a wage cut in real terms because they are not getting a pay rise and probably haven't for the last 3 years
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  • TrickyWicky
    TrickyWicky Posts: 4,025 Forumite
    Bet the MPs manage a wage rise above inflation.
  • Entimp
    Entimp Posts: 58 Forumite
    The rates £2.65/£3.68 disgust me, legalised slave labour. The 20+ wage doesn't impress me either.
  • gingerdad
    gingerdad Posts: 1,920 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Entimp wrote: »
    The rates £2.65/£3.68 disgust me, legalised slave labour. The 20+ wage doesn't impress me either.

    You don't need to accept it find a better paid job. All the minimum wage does is help push all other prices up.

    We pay above the minimum, but its getting closer, and its a much as we can afford without pricing us out of the market.
    The futures bright the future is Ginger
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