is a cunt.
Currently £11.44 for 21 and over but £6.40 for 16 and 17 year olds, £8.60 for 18 to 20.
Given than minimum wage applies to almost all unskilled jobs and many more, why should a 16 year old with some gumption to get out and work stacking shelves in a supermarket or heaving wheelbarrows around on a building site with their shiny new cscs card amd hi vis get paid virtually half the amount of someone a bit older doing exactly the same job?
All this does is hold people back, stops them affording their own rent so can’t afford to move out the family home and really start their struggle of existing properly.
Yes it may be designed to encourage people towards further education but not everyone wants to waste a few years of their life studying liberal arts or wokery other courses aimed at their intelligence level, what they need to be doing is working, earning, saving, being able to afford bad choices and overindulging, all important life lessons learned around that tender young age.
If they can’t afford to get into the just scraping by market then what hope do they have of getting onto the path of saving for a mortgage deposit?
Seems like a low paid punishment for the dying breed of youth who just want to work for an honest living to me.
Cunt of Peeblesshire.