The Minimum Wage
The Minimum Wage. A seafront café in Blackpool in April 1999. On the 1st the national minimum wage arrives: £3.60 an hour for workers aged twenty-two and…
£3.60 an hour. For everyone aged twenty-two and over.
A seafront café in Blackpool in April 1999. On the 1st the national minimum wage arrives: £3.60 an hour for workers aged twenty-two and over, £3 for those aged eighteen to twenty-one. Half your staff are paid less than that, the season starts at Easter, and your prices were printed in February.
- Starts
- April 1999
- Length
- a year
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Scored on
- Still employ 5 people at the end
- Business
- Café & Coffee Shop
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