The youth minimum wage is set to rise over this parliament, but it’s putting off employers from hiring people into their first roles The youth minimum wage is set to rise over this parliament, but it’s putting off employers from hiring people into their first roles W hen Keir Starmer was 14 years old, he got a part-time job clearing stones from a local farmer’s field . At 16, Kemi Badenoch was flipping burgers and cleaning toilets in McDonald’s. Me, I waitressed at weekends from the age of 15