The Need to Increase Low Wages

Companies should not pay their staff low wages such that they

Don’t earn enough on which to live, though working every day,

But need to access benefits to help them pay the rent

And many other basic things on which a wage is spent.

If no-one could get government help because their pay was low,

Even though in full-time work, their wage would need to grow,

For firms would find it difficult to get new staff on board

Unless they raised their wages so that workers could afford

To pay for all their basic needs, without the need to claim;

For every major company, that should surely be their aim.