WORLD BANK: Workers should ditch minimum wage to compete with robot labour

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• The World Bank has suggested employers should be able to opt out of paying minimum wage, in a draft report released Friday.
• It recommended that labour markets should be further deregulated, creating more flexible employment.
• Owen Tudor, Head of International Relations at the International Trade Union Committee said the World Bank could be spreading an “equality of misery” with the proposals.

LONDON — The World Bank has suggested that employers...