Than surely you agree that 8,36 an hour is a bit low; it doesn't have to be 15 for me, but it should be considerably higher. It'll ''liberate'' a pool of poorer (often with foreign roots) people with children to more interesting things than just working & sleeping.
No, because of small to medium sized business growth, which spurs job creation and the economy. You put that minimum wage up to £15 overnight, or even £12.50, you'd have some small enterprises (as in approx. 3 employees) go under altogether, you'd have those on the cusp of booming have to cut back staff etc.
People on the left have this view that if you're a 'business owner' you're automatically minted and obviously a Tory. They have no idea how it works. Take your café comment that they have to sell six cups to pay for the wage... but what about VAT? Business rates? Corp Tax? etc. etc. etc.? SMEs are absolutely hammered from all sides; a near 100% increase in wages for staff would be horrific for loads of them, and not just them,
all of us, because all it does is further monopolise bigger businesses who can absorb the increase.
No, the NMW should act as a safety net only accessible to businesses below certain revenues. It shouldn't be the baseline. Unlike what the lad said above, it's not that I think people should be paid differently for the
same job, but I think that if you work for a business that is pulling hundreds of millions in profit then you should the wealth should be redistributed accordingly, so that job
shouldn't be considered the same; it should be
aspirational to work at McDonald's or Amazon, they shouldn't be allowed to exploit people when they have that level of success.
Consider football - a striker for Man Utd and a striker for Morecambe do exactly the same job but are renumerated differently based on skill because the employer is literally in a different league. Imagine every football club paid every player minimum wage!
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