Letter: Would a minimum wage cost jobs?
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Anyone who shares your confidence that a statutory wage would not create unemployment would do well to look at the experience of Relais & Chateaux, the association of upmarket hotels and restaurants to which I belong.
My hotel employs 45 full-time- equivalent staff; our colleagues in France of directly comparable size employ 35. My French friends blame higher employment costs in France for the difference.
Legislation that gives a leg-up to the low paid at the expense of the unemployed is pointless.
Yours faithfully,
TIM HART
Proprietor
Hambleton Hall
Rutland
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