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While not legally the same, the UK comes close with its minimum wage/living wage gap: society acknowledges that minimum wage is not enough to make a living (in
by tremon 7y ago
While not legally the same, the UK comes close with its minimum wage/living wage gap: society acknowledges that minimum wage is not enough to make a living (in some areas) so it expects workers to be paid the living wage instead. I don't think this is mandated by law though, so you could have situations where workers are paid below the socially expected "minimum" wage.
At least they acknowledge the problem.
- esotericn 7y agoThe living wage is kind of different, though. The difference might be 10-20% or so. It's not like the US situation where the 'minimum' of $2 or whatever it is would be absolutely unliveable.
- kennyadam 7y ago'We' also renamed the minimum wage to the National Living Wage because the tories.