So you want to pay kids with no previous experience of work £18k pa? As said previously, what could possibly go wrong? I'll hazard a guess that no employer in their right mind will hire anyone under the age of 21.
How many employers do you think will hire 16 year-olds when they can get someone with far more work experience for the same money? Older people with the experience will be demanding £15 an hour from their employers and businesses will go bust. Apart from that everything will be hunky dory.
Think they said the same about holidays and women. As i said, i know 19yr olds on 18.3k without it being a law. What companies will go bust?
Anyone voting today? Only leaflets through my door were Brexit Party and UKIP so guess I'll have to pick between those two.
Hairdressers, cafes and the like, the traditional employers of teenagers. This is all a pipe dream of Corbyn's anyway, he knows it'll never happen.
Don't you think this is then solved by there being more readily available cash to be spent at hairdressers by 16 year old girls on 10pph?
The state shouldn't be telling people what they should pay their employees. Minimum wages just push up prices via inflation. I'm voting Lib Dems ABSNP
They aren't. They are only telling them the minimum to pay. More money to spend = less businesses bought over by Mike Ashley. Interesting to see rate of inflation since minimum wage introduced in UK until horrible tories took over.
You need younger staff on lower wages, simple maths but then that Labour's strong point. Mine neither. Take on an apprentice and instead of a higher salary they get to learn the ropes from an experienced chap or chappette. Finish the apprenticeship with a qualification and then feck off to another job if you want. If businesses want to retain experienced staff that is when you can think about higher wages. There is a time bomb ticking regarding skills shortages and throwing double the money at teenagers for menial jobs is f.ucked up thinking and won't help. Even with my poor grasp of figures this can't work unless prices are driven up to compensate. Far too many people have the wrong idea about what they are truly worth. £18k+ for flipping burgers or stacking shelves is ludicrous. It sets the snowflakes up for demanding even more when they hit their 20's and gives an unrealistic view of finances to de yoot dem. Start low, get experience, get good at the job, get promoted and then you earn more. Without this work ethic we are pandering to the tree-huggers by insisting a 16 year old should be on £10 an hour. Has anyone from Labour said there would be less street crime if we paid more to da kids? Because of course that is the only reason we have so much crime these days. That and slavery.
