MHK accuses Chamber of Commerce of opposing minimum wage rise

A Ramsey MHK has accused the Island's Chamber of Commerce of opposing a rise in the minimum wage after it approved a new formula for it earlier this year.

A government report backed scrapping the living wage and raising the minimum wage to 66 per cent of median Island earnings, and the organisation urged politicians to approve the changes.

But Lawrie Hooper says the Chamber has now emailed him lobbying against raising the minimum wage.

On Twitter, he says it previously supported changing the minimum wage because it opposed the living wage amount.