WHILE acknowledging the minimum wage will be of benefit to certain sectors, including low-wage adult women, I believe Mr Martin's claims, Citizen May 28, about the need for social justice to be ridiculous to the extreme.

Britain is a vibrant, high-tech economy and the burdens that Mr Martin wishes to see imposed upon us will have the effect of stifling enterprise and returning Britain to the position of a 'chronic laggard.' It is a cruel trick on employees and one that will lead to unemployment for the least skilled, least paid and least productive. It will also increase the burdens on business which will cause investment to move elsewhere and to the creation of a black market for labour. A free-market approach with less Government intervention is more likely to result in long-term economic growth.

David Queen, Wagon Rd, Lower Dolphinholme.

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