http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband-minimum-wage-pledge-4297505 Is 8 quid an hour enough? Too much? Cheap trick by Wallace? Seems a massive hike...how would businesses take it?
The Swiss recently had a referendum on putting theirs at 15 notes an hour. Was narrowly defeated I think. One things for sure, zero hour contracts need binned.
It won't be enough by 2020. Raising it to £8 in the next few years would be progress, but £8 per hour would be a ****ty minimum wage in 16 years time.
£8 per hour wouldn't feed a ****ing sparrow. But I suppose any increase would be a start. There are currently too many employers getting away with paying their staff wages that don't cover the basic cost of survival. I would have some sympathy for small firms just getting started where employees might have a chance to watch their incomes grow as the business grows, but in recent years lots of established large employers are taking the piss. Imo only the re emergence of a strong Trade Union movement will solve the problem.
Raise it to £10/hour asap, it'll save the government a fortune, if small businesses can't handle it then they could maybe get tax-breaks/subsidies. The state has been funding poor wages for too long, **** the system
