The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's cross-community party
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Age discrimination laws must mean common minimum wage9.50.18am BST (GMT +0100) Thu 28th Sep 2006
Alliance Party Spokesperson for Youth Affairs, Ian James Parsley, has said new laws to counter age discrimination must be backed up by a common minimum wage applicable to people of all ages. The North Down Councillor stated: "It is nonsense that 16 and 17-year-oldscan legally be paid less than workers of other ages, when we are busy saying that people cannot be discriminated against on the basis of age. "How can people claim they are not discriminating when they are paying people less purely because of how old they are? "If equal pay for equal work is to mean anything, it must apply to teenagers just as it does to anyone else." ENDS
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