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Re:Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos by ForHackernews on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:58AM (#25892521)
Wage rates are sticky. Many employers are used to paying very cheap labour costs.

You see this in agriculture too, where owners will sometimes let crops rot in the fields rather than risk setting a precedent for higher wages for pickers.

Re:Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos by microtherion on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:13AM (#25893133)
One would think that with the proliferation of gig economy arrangements, employers would get used to the concept of "surge pricing". Sadly not, it seems.