THE introduction of the minimum wage and the five-day, 40-hour work week

has  laid bare the realities of  social care and responsibility by some sections in  the private business and commercial sector,  as it relates to the thousands of workers who are in their employ.
 Stating this truism,  one must express particular surprise at the reaction of a certain  security service provider who has been complaining vocally about the new dispensation and surrounding aspects of implementing the five-day work  week, and its new working hours. He is also calling for a re-negotiation of the current rates paid to his service. One suspects that this position may also be  that of service providers  generally.
For a person known as an upright citizen, threatening to send home his guards because of “possible bankruptcy” is as threatening as it is unkind. One is certain that he would have been apprised of the discussions that would have led to the final arrangements for implementation. So why didn’t he, and perhaps other owners, immediately raise their objections? Or is it a case of opposing these long overdue improvements for a work category that has toiled under horrible working conditions for as long as can be recalled?
Where is the conscience of this major captain of industry? One would conclude that he ought to have been among the very first to support these new mechanisms that are designed to remove security guards from unduly long working hours, without even the common courtesy of a meal, working on holidays without pay, as in many guard services, the haste to charge, that often leads to deduction of fines from already very meagre earnings. These are just a few of the indignities of working conditions  for  which private security services have become notorious.   
As a goodwill ambassador, how can he make rejectionist statements of the kind that are definitely non-supportive of the new dawn for those in his service, and others? Are not the regulations morally just? Would not his guards be motivated for better performance? And would his service not benefit from such new-found energy?
These are the questions that this citizen must ask himself.