WWith an estimated 188,000 job openings in the hospitality industry, bar and restaurant owners are beginning to complain about the licensing scheme, specifically, that it has made people lose the will to work. That’s unlikely: leave covered only 80% of wages, and given the struggle it is to stay afloat even with 100% of a wage package (17.4% of working households are now in poverty relative, the highest number of this century), anyone with a minimum wage would probably prefer to work over a license. Arguably the 1 million people who have left the UK since Brexit could have […]
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