Rishi Sunak Quotes

People against the minimum wage say that many workers will lose their jobs. I haven’t ever met a minimum wage worker who didn’t say “Go for it!”

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.

Surely the time was coming when the law, which was the representative of the organized will of the people, would declare that British workers should no longer work for less than they could live upon.

The minimum wage is important for many nations

America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

Now all of you know that right now the federal minimum wage is a starvation wage.

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'

I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.

By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.

If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.

I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.

I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage.

I have serious concerns with the discussion around minimum wage because it drives up costs, and it could harm jobs.

No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers.

To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers.

I have never said I was against raising the minimum wage.