LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Low wages to blame for worker shortage

Regarding Thursday’s article regarding the short supply of PSWs in Peterborough, Sally Harding owner of Nightingale Nursing blames the $14 minimum wage. She states that few people want to do a two-year college course for a $16.50 per hour job.

I find it mind-boggling that in a business world where we are constantly told that at the executive level companies have to pay top dollar (read multiple millions per year) in order to get the best people, yet at the bottom of the wage scale we pay too much. In a free market if I can’t sell a product perhaps I’m charging too much and in a free labor market if I can’t find employees perhaps I’m not offering a high enough wage.

For some reason this logic is lost on business people whose usual response is to demand to be allowed to bring in more offshore workers.

C.A. Heller, Peterborough