The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has backed calls from the Confederation of British Industry for a freeze in national minimum wage for younger workers.
Both groups say a rise in the rate for under 22 year olds not sustainable under current trading conditions and would ultimately end up costing jobs as well as making young people a less attractive pool of potential resource. It says only a nominal rise, pegged to inflation, should be applied to the minimum wage…
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