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Lodged au Greffe on 13th February by Deputy G. Southern of St. On July 22nd the States of Jersey clearly rejected by 25 votes to 15 a proposition from the then Employment and Social Security President to include a "youth rate" in the minimum wage regulations see Appendix.
Today less than three years later that same individual, as minister for Social Security, returns to the Assembly with a "youth rate" in a slightly different guise and relabelled as a "student rate". Once more, the provision for the introduction of the student rate is contained in an order which is yet to come to the assembly. This amendment would remove the ability to set a different rate on grounds other than training from the Regulations.
The key argument in that debate, and the one which remains equally valid today is that expressed by JACS and quoted on page 21 of the report from the Employment Forum attached to P. This principle of a fair day's adult pay for a fair day's adult work is a good one and fits appropriately with the exception made for trainees, who obviously cannot be doing a full adult job until properly trained.
The Employment forum paper discusses whether there is a need for greater periods of training but then focuses on the difficulties experienced by Raffray Ltd. The Forum use this example to suggest that a youth rate be introduced to apply to students in full-time education.
