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A wage of £6.32 an hour is not enough
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From Martin Black.
IN response to the criticism of Deputy Southern’s call to increase the minimum wage in Jersey from the paltry £6.32 it is now, I have one or two comments to direct in particular to Clive Spears, the man who says ‘it will cost jobs’ (JEP, 26 October).
This argument is an old chestnut which hails from Victorian times when people were a commodity to be used and abused by employers. Evidently, in his view, not much has changed.
Any business that employs labour should pay that labour a reasonable rate for the work that’s done. If it cannot, then it is not a viable business.
The function of Social Security is not to subsidise ailing businesses to pay subsistence wages to their employees in order that they remain profitable, which is certainly what is happening now. If anyone thinks that they can live on the annual salary of someone earning £6.32 an hour, in this Island, they are clearly mistaken or in urgent need of psychiatric help.
The level of the minimum wage in any country is a benchmark of the level of social responsibility that is felt by its ruling elite. The fact that we have such an appallingly low minimum wage shames this Island, one of the richest jurisdictions in the world.
Something should be done now and Deputy Southern should be applauded for his efforts, not pilloried by advisers to the establishment.
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