Rejected petition Raise minimum wage for people below the age of 18

As a 16 year old myself I have found in multiple jobs or business’s I am being paid severely lower than my coworkers despite doing the exact same job and sometimes more.

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I have been getting paid £4.50/h and am aware that my coworkers are getting paid double for the exact same job/ability. If in today’s society we don’t allow unequal pay for different genders so why should age be any different? Doing the same job should mean the same pay regardless of your age.

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There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/240970

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Date submitted 13 February 2019
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