Newstalk ZB reports–
New research is revealing how the removal of youth minimum wages three years ago affected young workers. A study released by the Department of Labour shows the removal of youth rates saw the number of 16 and 17-year-olds in employment fall by three to six percentage points.
The last Labour Government abolished the minimum wage in 2008, requiring employers to hire teenagers on the same wage that they’d pay a fully qualified adult. What you would expect from a party of sleazy lawyers, unionists and teachers who have never run a real business.
Howver, in another example of the yellow cowardice that characterises National under John Key, the new government made no move to reintroduce a youth minimum wage. Even worse, the National Party actually voted against the Member’s Bill in Roger Douglas’s name which would have achieved that objective.
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“New research” shouldn’t be necessary. The history of mandated higher pay for the lowest paid workers is in the early 20th century eugenics of progressives. Their goal was to eliminate the “inferior” lower classes by pricing them out of the market! Also: White racist labour unions in South Africa who found it costly to themselves to exclude the far lower-paid Blacks from employment, supported a higher wage to force higher costs on their competitors. IOW, those who wanted to exclude one group of workers from employment supported paying them *more*!
It’s basic common sense. The policy could only really help those *already in* employment. But the unintended consequences of infering in what people are willing to work for is in the exclusion of those people from getting a job in the first place, through costlier hiring.
The political class doesn’t care about this. Opposing “youth rates” is too easy a vote buying ploy for all the low-hanging fruit in the electorate. We get the leaders we deserve.
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