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SNP challenges Labour on minimum wage compliance Print E-mail
Tuesday, 13 November 2007

SNP Treasury spokesman Stewart Hosie has written to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling about what he says is a disproportionately high number of Scottish workers earning below the National Minimum Wage.

According to statistics published by the House of Commons Library Economic Indicators Bulletin, in 2006 Scotland had an estimated 41,000 workers earning below the National Minimum Wage. At 1.8 per cent of the total workforce, this represented the highest rate of non-compliance of any part of the UK.

Hosie said: "The Chancellor must explain why, eight years after the National Minimum Wage was introduced, as many of 41,000 workers in Scotland are still not even being paid the bare minimum.

"Scotland has the highest rates of non-compliance of any part of the UK, and we need action to end this shameful situation now."
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