Should wages increase relative to the Minimum Wage?

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

HappyMJ wrote: »

Negotiate...and if that fails. Leave. They will not find another person willing to take on that responsibility for MW plus 5p.

Well, as I say above, they will. The applicant who gets rejected from the barman's job and would rather take that responsibility and the extra 5p then be unemployed.

Whether they think this is a good way to run their business is up to them. Plenty of companies seem to think it is.

Actually of course, now I think about it, with the new age band in NMW then for anyone under 25 it will be a lot more than NMW plus 5p, so younger people will be correspondingly more keen to take the managerial role.

I don't believe that this is a good situation, but it is the situation we have.

Takeaway_Addict

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

No they don't. But if they don't allow that, and also won't raise his wages to make doing the managerial job worthwhile, then he can leave and get a barman's job or assistant manager's job elsewhere.

If the job is not worth the additional money, then they won't get anyone else to fill it who is capable of getting a barman's job.

And as in any case where they is an insufficient differential between reward and responsibility, they will end up only being able to hire managers who are effectively less employable than the staff they are managing, as they are the ones who didn't have a choice.

This happens a lot more often than you would suppose.

I actually agree as per post 2, but if the employer decides not to increase it then that is their choice and they suffer teh consequences...if any.

xapprenticex

Wow i remember when i used to work for £4.10. good times......