Letter: Bosses can fund minimum wage
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: If management in companies are so keen to ensure Britain's economic competitiveness, why not let higher and middle managers take a little drop in their weekly wage of, say, pounds 15 and pounds 10 respectively. This could then be used to cover the cost of a minimum pounds 4 per hour to low-paid employees. There would be no loss of employment, our exports would remain constant, and the underpaid could gain some self-respect. Social justice would be seen to be done and firms' economic effectiveness would not suffer.
BRENDAN McMAHON
London E12
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