The unfairness of variable minimum wage rates was neatly identified by an 18 year old from the London borough of Newham. She was interviewed on BBC R4′s Moneybox programme at the weekend. Get the podcast if you want. Item starts around 18.27 mins into it. A shopworker, the young woman had just got a supervisor job. Yet her [...]
Pay rate age discrimination
PJ White · 14 January 2008 --> · No comments
Tags: Rights, rates & the law · Voices of experience
Minimum wage increase
PJ White · 28 September 2007 --> · No comments
Quick reminder that the yearly rise in the minimum wage happens next week. From Monday 1 October the hourly rates are: Aged 22 and over: £5.52 Aged 18-21: £4.60 Aged 16 and 17: £3.40 The relevant government department – the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform – runs the National Minimum Wage Helpline. Call 0845 [...]
Tags: Rights, rates & the law
