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Make a standard minimum wage, unrelated to age.

Submitted on Thursday 16th August 2018

Rejected on Thursday 30th August 2018

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make a standard minimum wage, unrelated to age.

Petition Details

We should end age-related discrimination in terms of the minimum wage. If two people are doing exactly the same job to the same standard they should be paid the same amount, regardless of age. Hourly rate should reflect a skill set, not an age otherwise, discrimination is taking place.

Additional Information

There is no evidence to prove discrimination of a person's ability or capacity to work based on age. A tiered structure encourages many employers to discriminate as a cost saving exercise, they will deliberately employ young people. A tiered structure also makes the assumption that required income level is based on age. This is a generalisation and doesn't apply to all backgrounds.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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