UK’s Healey says minimum wage to rise by 3.9 percent

LONDON: Britain’s Finance Minister John Healey ‌said on Wednesday that the main minimum wage rate would increase by 3. 9 percent. The rate paid to workers aged 21 and over, currently £12.

71 an hour, and the rate payable to workers aged 18-20, now £10. 85, will both rise by 3. 9 percent. Some analysts and employers had blamed larger jumps in the rate for younger workers for increasing youth unemployment. The increase…