A proposal was raised to end the government commitment to pay the national living wage to everyone over 18. Alan Milburn linked the idea to recommendations expected in an autumn report on rising numbers of young people not in education, employment or training. Labour’s manifesto states that the minimum wage will be a genuine living wage, the Low Pay Commission’s remit will include the cost of living, and discriminatory age bands will be removed so all adults receive the same minimum wage. The TUC warned that cutting minimum pay for young workers would be a mistake. Torsten Bell suggested Labour’s manifesto does not require immediate removal by the end of the parliament, implying rates could be moved together over time through the Low Pay Commission.
"Labour will also remove the discriminatory age bands, so all adults are entitled to the same minimum wage, delivering a pay rise to hundreds of thousands of workers across the UK."
"The manifesto sets out that the we should move the rates together over time. It doesn't set a timeline on that because that's the important role of the Low Pay Commission."
"Milburn, the TUC, and everyone else who has read the manifesto, probably assume that, when Labour said it would remove discriminatory age bands, it meant by the end of this parliament. But it didn't, Bell claimed."
"The TUC said yesterday that cutting the minimum wage for young workers would be a mistake setting the scene for a fierce Labour internal battle over the manifesto pledge."
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