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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Christopher McKeon

MYSTERIOUS: Keep age based minimum wage to help young people into work says think tank - What They Never Told You

Ministers should abandon plans to equalise the minimum wage as the number of young people out of work or education threatens to reach 1 million, a think tank has said.

Last year’s budget saw Rachel Reeves announce plans to scrap lower minimum wage rates for under-21s, saying they were “discriminatory”.

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