www.politics.co.uk/news/2014/02/14/tory-mps-advised-how-to-avoid-paying-minimum-wage
"The Conservative Party have been accused of hypocrisy after backing plans to raise the minimum wage while sending out advice to its MPs on how to avoid paying it.
Tory MPs were sent a two-page memo instructing them to replace words like "worker" and "intern" in advertisements with "campaign volunteer" instead.
They were also told to avoid paying regular expenses to their interns as this would be "likely to give the volunteer the right to the minimum wage".
It instructs MPs to replace phrases like "you will be expected to…" with "The kind of activities it would be great to get some help with include…" in any job descriptions.
The memo, leaked to the website Graduate Fog has been revealed following the chancellor George Osborne's decision to back plans for a significant rise in the minimum wage. "
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