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Originally Posted by arista

"Junior criminal barristers will remain on less than minimum wage."

Yes Slim
they are the Juniors

If they're on less than minimum wage I can only assume it's because the positions are salaried and they end up working far over normal working hours? Otherwise the maths for £13000 doesn't work out... the bare minimum you can LEGALLY be paid for a 40 hour working week is £17500 (and that's factoring in an unpaid lunch hour).

Unless they're under 20, which isn't really possible as they'd barely be out of school.

Again it can only really be trhat they're "effectively" on less than minimum hourly wage because, let's say, they're salaried for a 40 hour working week at maybe £21k but they're actually working 60-hour weeks.