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Originally Posted by Escapee
My opinion is that although the introduction of the minimum wage put a stop to some employers exploiting workers, employees who have had their wages reduced to match the minimum wage are paying for it.
The minimum wage appears to be the target that employers want to pay at the lower end of the job market.
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Exactly what happened, the arrival of millions of eastern Europeans delighted to be earning minimum money helped fill vacancies to.
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Originally Posted by Escapee
But wasn't that the aim of the last government, they encouraged single women with children to work 16 hrs minimum wage and married couples to work on minimum wage topped up with tax credits. This made the unemployment figures look good and the 16 hours was also a bit of a job share in many cases, their approach with single people was that they could just rot in hell.
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Yeah I got that feeling to by the way every budget they did targeted the "hard working families"