A survey has recently been launched by the Deputy Member of Youth Parliament for Birmingham, Andy Marlow, into what people think about current minimum wage laws.

It also seeks to find out how much people are actually paid, in order to discover the number of people being paid below minimum wage.

Two weeks ago, angered that young people are paid less than older workers for doing the same jobs, he decided to set up a survey into the issue and to start a campaign to equalise minimum wages for all workers.

Now, the campaign is going from strength to strength, with the start of a national infrastructure and with increasing numbers filling the survey, which can be found at  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=C_2bw09X_2bpcIUl3PruQ4D93Q_3d_3d.

At the time of writing, "Equal pay for equal work: the campaign for minimum wage equality" has 288 members of facebook. The group can be found at  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47536434682&ref=ts.

This issue has support from several quarters.

The UK Youth Parliament and the British Youth Council are both calling for a change in minimum wage laws, and the Liberal Democrat Children and Equality Spokesperson Lynne Feathersone has said, "It is simply unfair that younger people receive less money for equal work."

Once the survey has a large number of responses, it will be used to create a report, which will hopefully put pressure on the government to create one minimum wage for everyone overt he age of 16.

A week of National Protest will also happen at around the same time that the report is published.