Daily Archives: 04/07/2011

MP’s ‘prejudiced’ minimum wage claim sparks anger

A Conservative MP who suggested disabled people should be allowed to work for less than the minimum wage has been dismissed by campaigners as “ill-informed” and “prejudiced”.
Philip Davies, the MP for Shipley, told fellow MPs that minimum wage legislation prevented disabled people from climbing onto the “first rung of the employment ladder”.
Davies, who appeared confused [...]