SCOTLAND’s National Union of Students has called for further action to combat age-based wage discrimination.

It comes after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced an above-inflation increase to all bands of the national minimum wage that has narrowed the age discrepancy of pay rates, but left it in place.

The move will up pay for workers under-18 or apprentices under 19 to £8 (a 6% rise), 18-20 year olds to £10 (8.5% up), and pay for those 21 and older to £12.71 (4.1% up).

The move has been described by Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), as delivering on the government’s promise to “make work pay". But the move has been criticised by industry groups like the Scottish Tourism Alliance saying it will “add to business costs and damage the sector’s ability to

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