12% minimum wage increase recommended

Why do you want to take out some of the biggest expenses?

Mortgage/Rent/Insurance/wages/water charges/Maintenance for machines./Power (you're not just heating water)

While some places might be gauging. Removing the heavy costs to come up with the price of a cup is a bit disingenuous

I think the biggest issue when an increase in min wage is announced is that people who are not on minimum wage won't see any increase and will think that's unfair. But that's a different arguement, should everyone elses wages go up too. I'd like it if they did, but they won't, and that's where I reckon people have issue with it. Won't affect me anyway.

If minimum wage goes up all pay scales will have to rise accordingly.

Minimum wages don't drive inflation. They very very rarely increase faster than background inflation, and if wages don't keep up with background inflation then it's just a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich and that eats away at the fabric of society.

Minimum wages should be index linked and rise every single year. Corporations should be banned from writing in index linked price increases into their contracts ( like broadband providers increasing prices by inflation plus 3% every year)

The whole point of private capitalism is that entrapreneurs can do things more efficiently while in a competitive environment so they should be able to increase productivity through innovation and not just cutting employee wages and driving up prices

Let the higher paid workers negotiate their wage with their employers like they already do. But minimum wages are set by the state and the state should ensure that there isn't an ever increasing gap between the lowest paid workers and the cost of living.

If that means inflation then so be it. Ultimately inflation hurts people who own debt.

A 10% increase for minimum wage workers is 1.30 an hour. A 10% increase for someone on 40k a year is 2 euros an hour, 4 euros an hour for someone on 80k yet some people will try to blame the minimum wage earners for the inflation rate going up.

The government should set a livable wage as minimum wage and raise it in line with inflation. If higher wage earners want to keep up withijinum wage workers, offer them 1.30 extra an hour. Most wouldn't even notice if they got it or not

Everyone on above minimum wage is a higher paid worker than minimum wage...

If you give someone on 40k the same absolute Increase as someone on minimum wage then it's less than half the rate of inflation....

The minimum wage should be abolished. It always has harmful effects.

...again folks, we re currently experiencing primarily supply side lead inflation, not demand side, this is ultimately not coming from an increase in pay, but from the likes of record profiteering by many major sectors of our economies..

Interesting phraseology there. Minimum wage has hugely beneficial effects. Maybe there are some harmful effects but on balance places with higher minimum wages and a fair welfare system tend to be much better places to live than places with starvation wages in a race to the bottom where the desperate compete against each other

.yup, and that to, again, thats all supply side, but global supply chains are now settling since covid, energy markets are to, so inflation has now probably moved more so towards widescale profiteering, although its very difficult to be absolutely certain about this as many make it very difficult to gain access to such data, irish grocery retailers are notorious with this....