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To: Subway bosses
Subway: pay your staff properly!
Ensure that none of your franchises can get away with paying less than the minimum wage. Using so called ‘sandwich artist apprenticeships’ to sidestep the minimum wage for your staff is morally wrong
Why is this important?
Some branches of Subway, the chain of sandwich shops, recruit staff to be so-called "Apprentice Sandwich Artists" - often for less than £4 an hour, sometimes for as long as 14 months. By claiming that the staff are apprentices, bosses avoid paying the legally required minimum wage.
But these aren't real apprenticeships. Young people hired as apprentices are doing almost exactly the same work as their co-workers who are paid at the legal minimum or above.
It's not a training scheme, its exploitation.
