Letter: Minimum wage rise could price us out of market

Regarding Oliver Healey's letter that the minimum wage should be £8.75 per hour. I welcomed the minimum wage as before some people were working for £2 an hour, but let's not price ourselves out of the market.

Firms will take the work abroad – where the wages are lower – if the minimum wage gets too high.

With the employment laws we now have, you cannot sack people like you could years ago, so you could end up paying £8.75 per hour for a poor worker.

It could be more affordable to pay workers overtime rather than take new people on.

A number of firms in Shropshire have already moved to China and India.

Tom Brazier

Trench