Chris Dillow informs us how not to attack David Cameron.
I had a conversation today with my mother about the news that Asda will pay under-18s the same hourly wage as adults. She thought it was a good thing, but I said, “You do know what that means, don’t you? It just means they’ll employ fewer under-18s.”
That might be a bit cynical. But I’m pretty sure this is a fig leaf in the face of Wal-Mart’s increasingly bad publicity (an anti-Wal-Mart documentary is also doing the rounds among students at the moment). If they just raised the wages I would applaud them. But the fact that they have (presumably) gone out of their way to get this into the news makes me suspicious.
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