Wasn't the minimum wage introduced to eradicate low pay?
no it was there to ensure there was a degree of fairness. Dont forget the tory party did not want it and predicted wrongly that many businesses would go bust because of it. The issue now is that many companies use it as the norm rather than what it should have been, ie a minimum. Ironically i read a report last couple of days about the many many company directors who are non doms to avoid taxes here in the uk. I suppose minimum wage or even god forbid a living wage would concern them
Ah ha.
There's me, fingered as a Tory on here, and probably a baby eating one at that, and that was my observation then and has been consistent ever since.
Minimum wage - great idea, introduced with the best intentions, but it is now the wage, which is perhaps not so good.