Minimum wage for young people is pathetic

What the minimum wage workers of this country need to do is to form a new union calling it the "minimum wage union" charging a fiver a year each for administration,

With the ever increasing amount of minimum wage jobs on offer in this country, it is time to take a little back off the fat cats, now that would be a powerfull union.

I totally agree with you- the minimum wage for under 18's should definitely be raised! I know that people disagree with this because they believe that people with more experience should be paid more, and that's all well and good, but younger workers often have to do more taxing jobs, dogsbody work that none of the other staff want to do. Having been an under 18s worker myself in a clothes store I know that the newer members have to carry out the more menial tasks such as mopping the floor, carrying stock up and down the stairs, clearing up after customers AS WELL as serving on the tills, providing good customers service etc- the more experienced people in the workforce only work on the shop floor, whereas the new people are expected to do everything.
Now I understand that this is character building and basically good for the young person (well it was for me) as it gives you a good grounding in the business, but I say it definitely deserves moire than what they're paying us!

I think it is acceptable to pay more to someone who has more experience and may be more valuable to an organisation but if a young person is doing the same work to the same level then they should be paid the same money.

God know the adult rate minimum wage is pitifully low in any case without paying youngsters even less. I don't see how someone living alone who has to pay all the bills can get by on minimum wage.

do your minimum wage work & move on ! find a job that pays better ,people must realise you ca n t pay nothing to people I can speak from a little bit of expierence,I worked for years for s"""t money,BUT I bided my time .now I earn better ,not fantastic BUT,hey still its easy for more to say,keep looking it will come ....

The minimum wage should be £8 an hour to cover the cost of living in a rip off society !

Rubbish. It's not for the money, it's the experience and character building. Lucky they're not doing national service. £3.53 is fine.

I agree with all you have writen below aleedsfella, I was recently done by a speed camera. This goverment is not interested in the people, they just want to milk us for every pound they can get. This bilderberg group is the same as them illuminatti arnt they? I tell ya cuzz, this fine land of ares has turned into a facsist police state.

oh god don't get me started on the economy! the fact is that britain and most of europe are a spent force. we have no major industry left and no natural resourses left. People need to source their news from the net and not Browns Broadcasting Corperation or any of the other government controlled media. Their are no green shoots, the British economy is dead. the markets and banks are running purely on bailout money. The funny thing is that our economy is now almost totally dependend on consumer spending aka shopping, it is simply unsustainable, if the government stopped paying benefits and enforcing the minimum wage this country would grind to a halt. The government are just playing for time till the next election and who ever wins is screwed. 50% of money spent in some areas is state hand outs (jsa, income support, tax credits etc) they dare not turn the tap off.

I hear people asking if this will be worst than the 90's recession ? and the answer is! its the same recession! we never pulled out of it. they just masked it by creating the housing boom and then rolling out stupid amounts of credit. so they have been compounding the problem for over a decade. Quantitative easing aka printing money has never in the history of economics. this time last year the world was laughing at Robert Mugabe President of Zimbabwe and his Quantitative easing. That ended with hyper inflation, as it always does. why do the british public think it will work out for us ? it just devalues the money already in circulation! its insane. some may begin to think its deliberate, devalue the pound and hello the Euro! I could go on for ever on this subject but people need to form their own opinions. my opinion is that the rulers (and trust me its not our government) are crashing the economy so they can centralize everything one world bank and one world government. aka "The New World Order" and to be honest all the rubbish we argue about between our selfs about such as the battle of the sex's, race, class etc is simply to keep us busy with each other while the gov' carry on regardless

To anyone still in control of their own mind and who is willing to admit they may have been a bit of a mug! There is a free and legal download of a film/Doc called "Zeitgeist Addendum" if you have more brain cells than teeth you must watch it! I was furious after watching it! it explains the fractional reserve banking system and how we are all actually slaves to it! it was brought into existence to replace slavery. under the old system of slavery the slave owner had to feed, cloth and house his slave. now with the fraction reserve banking system the slaves feed cloth and house them selves. so watch Zeitgeist Addendum and if you want to dig deeper google/you tube............. "The Bilderberg Group" these people control you and your so called elected officials. its amazing how every elected head of state over the past few decades has become a Bilderberg member first ? Blair, Brown, Bush, Bush, Thatcher, Clinton, Regan.....the list is endless.the only person with the courage to try rebuff these people was John F Kennedy and he was shut up big style. And no i'm not a nut case I just question things! its unusual these days I know.

Aleedsfella only the likes of people like me and you can for-see the mess that this country is heading into, the government are now commited to paying all the wages to these administration jobs, not forgetting their pensions, and then there is the army of one-parent familys that they have encouraged over the years and the money it costs to keep them,
Quantitative easing is now Gordans only hope, what the country once borrowed yearly is now borrowed monthly, anyone who thought that their pile of cash in the bank was a good nest egg for the the future is in for a shock, as the way we are going, the £ is going to be worth less and less as the months of this depression drag on.

P.S. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation it would be £9-70 an hour now! not £5-73 as it stands now. Screw it! I withdraw my Labour and if more people would do so then CrashGordon and his pathetic party would have the kind of serious problem they deserve. oh and I hope you are all looking forward to repaying the bank bailouts, As it gonna mean two thirds of your income going to crashGordon and his banker friends in taxation.