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03/12/2008
TUC: Raise the minimum wage to £6.10 |
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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is calling on the Low Pay Commission to increase the national minimum wage from £5.73 to £6.10 an hour next year.
As well as a raising of the minimum wage from October 2009, the TUC is recommending that the adult rate should be payable from 21 and not 22, based on its own evidence.
From next April The Employment Act 2008 will bring with it stricter penalties for employers who fail to adhere to paying the national minimum wage and unlimited fines could be handed out to the worst and most prolific offenders.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said the minimum wage has "never had any detrimental effect" on the economy of the UK and agrees that setting the rate too high would cost jobs.
However, he says that people seldom realise that the same is true if the rate is set too low.
"A low minimum wage would not only leave low paid workers - predominantly women - in poverty unnecessarily but would also leave them with less money to spend," he argued.
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