Minimum Wage and life in the United Kingdom
Minimum Wage and life in the United KingdomMinimum wage was invented to regulate employers. It first emerged during the 1870s, as there were no concrete employment laws as they are existing and enforced today. The trade unions in the United Kingdom were presenting continuous strikes in demand for better wages that would help them achieve better living conditions, health, sanitation and housing. They argued that the minimum wage should provide reasonable time for recreation and rest as well as reasonable home comforts and be sufficient to allow them to discharge the duties of citizenship. Presently The National Minimum Wage Act…