Letter: In brief
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If a competent employer cannot find pounds 3.60 plus costs and adequate profit from an hour of an employee's labour, that job is not economically viable. It should be made viable (by better management or investment) or it should disappear.
We can ignore the crocodile tears of Ruth Lea, head of policy at the Institute of Directors, about job losses.
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It is up to the IoD's members to create decent jobs at decent wages instead of whinging about anything that means less time on the golf course.
NORMAN GOALBY
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