1. Minimum wage and excessive salaries
Starter – IWB salary guesser
Homework – none.
Learning Objectives:-
 To analyse the existence of the minimum wage and evaluate whether it should exist.
To evaluate whether it is religiously or morally right to earn an excessive salary.

2. research
Use p74 to take key factfile notes on min. wage and excessive salaries – including definitions and moral questions.
Task Sheets
Extension – Where can they go on holiday?

3. debate
Debate Questions whole class – Is the 45% tax rate moral? Should the rich be taxed more? Should there be a minimum wage? Is the term excessive fair? Can you be a rich Christian?

4. plenary
Justify the minimum wage written down, as a Christian, as a Buddhist and you. Same with excessive salaries.
Minimum Wage... Good or Bad? Why? Christian, Buddhist.
Excessive Salaries...Good or bad? Why? Christian, Buddhist.