This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Security industry wages increase
Force security guards company’s to pay more than the minimum wage. the security guard industry is a complete joke. We provide a wide range of protection in the security sector. & a lot of us are still working for minimum wage.
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Minimum wage is a joke especially when you’re protecting the public. on a daily basis security companies are making sky rocket profits. but are not putting our wages up. I think this is bigger downside to working in the security industry when you pay £500.00 for a security license to perform security in the United Kingdom. Yet a lot of us are still being paid minimum wage to protect the public. when retail workers are getting paid a higher wage than security guards.
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Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
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Decisions about what private businesses pay their workers, provided this is at or above the minimum wage, are a matter for individual employers, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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