George Osborne wants to raise the minimum wage to £7. ($11.45) - Polidicks

Wow George Osborne making a good decision? What the hell is going on here Only bad thing is this could win voters over, which means another 5 years of tories *sigh*

[QUOTE=Noss;43563896]While he's at it they need to make minimum wage equal for all ages if they're doing the same work. Its legal age discrimination, and its complete bullshit.[/QUOTE] Haha no. The point of the sliding minimum wage is that younger people often have less qualifications of experience than older people, and so by having that sliding minimum wage it makes them more competitive against older workers (if there was a flat minimum wage and you advertised a minimum wage job, who would you pick? The 25 year old with 5 years of relevant experience or the 18 year old just out of school with no experience at all?). Kind of necessary considering youth unemployment is relatively high all over the world.

I'm on £7.28/hour basic rate entry level. It's actually really shitty because to offset it they give you fewer hours and shitty flexible contracts. I'd rather take a £6/h 40 hour a week job over it.

[QUOTE=NorthernFall;43563943]Apparently my time is worth £1.00 an hour less than someone 1 year older than me (i'm 20) even though i've been working this job for two years now. It sucks, it's just an excuse for business's to pay younger people slave wages.[/QUOTE] Mate look at it this way: I'm 18 and get paid slightly less than $14 per hour, and my co-workers who are older than 21 get paid above $20 per hour. But because I put in the same amount of effort as them, my managers love calling me in to do extra shifts because I'm so cost-effective. So at the end of the day my payslips are larger and I could not give less of a fuck about my wage compared to theirs when I'm receiving twice as many hours. [editline]17th January 2014[/editline] Hell, I'd argue and the managers might agree with me that I put in more effort than the average at my workplace, so even when I am 21 I'll still be cost-effective.

Most of my jobs have been federal minimum of $7.25/hr come at me

[QUOTE=Terminutter;43559993]He's a physician. He's also normally a pretty good poster.[/QUOTE] an indian physician

[QUOTE=draugur;43564133] Minimum wage in the U.S. is £5.33/hr.[/QUOTE] Dude, I'm only making $7.50 (£4.59)

[QUOTE=Xmeagol;43564841]an indian physician[/QUOTE] Why is that different?

Different countries have different standards for MD's?

[QUOTE=mak364;43559998]No they don't deserve it when I was 16 I earned the minimum wage of £4.00. If you introduce a higher minimum wage less people are going to want to go into skilled jobs. Anyone and there dog can work a minimum wage job.[/QUOTE] hahahaha [editline]17th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Terminutter;43559993]He's a physician. He's also normally a pretty good poster.[/QUOTE] how can someone who can't do simple arithmetic or understand the influence of a fairly decent percentile increase in the minimum wage do either of those things

[QUOTE=ViralHatred;43564302]I'm on £7.28/hour basic rate entry level. It's actually really shitty because to offset it they give you fewer hours and shitty flexible contracts. I'd rather take a £6/h 40 hour a week job over it.[/QUOTE] often forgotten in the debate about wages is that people can have a higher wage but be underemployed to the point that the wage doesn't mean anything, comparatively.