Speakers highlight how national minimum wage and national living wage rates are not keeping up with inflation, and say that poor sick pay means sick workers going to work
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Government’s ‘levelling up agenda in tatters’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak yet again failed to offer the level of ambition necessary to rebuild a shattered economy, while also targeting the lowest paid to bear the brunt of the crisis despite their…Read more…
Pay justice fights
Luton airport cleaners are on a week-long strike as part of a campaign against their “Scrooge” bosses’ pay policies.
Luton airport cleaners are on a week-long strike as part of a campaign against…Read more…
‘No-frills’ lifestyle out of reach
The government’s so-called National ‘Living Wage’ (NLW) is anything but, as new research shows families with two parents working full-time on the statutory minimum will not earn enough to support…Read more…
Living wage pledge win
Hundreds of staff working for the University of Cambridge are set to receive a boost to their pay packets after the university signed up to the living wage thanks to Unite. The union hailed…Read more…
Low pay nation
The shocking extent to which low pay has gripped the entire country was laid bare today (August 24) in new figures published by the Labour Party. The analysis of workers in the UK earning less…Read more…
Council and school workers deserve a pay rise!
As a Councillor I was sent this motion by UNISON which I support and will send to our Council Labour Group, Newham School Governors and West Ham Labour Party Branch and General Committee.
(Please note that workers in local government and sc…Read more…
Squeezed – again
Labour and the unions attacked the Tories’ economic record after new figures showed that workers have been hit with a renewed wage squeeze. Pay growth in early 2017 fell below inflation for…Read more…
A ‘real living wage’
Labour will increase the minimum wage to £10 if the party wins the 2020 general election, Jeremy Corbyn said today (April 11). The Labour leader promised “a real living wage” of “at least” £10…Read more…
Minimum wage rates increase
New minimum wage rates come into force across UK, including ‘national living wage’
The article Minimum wage rates increase first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Minimum wage rates go up in April
UNISON calls for living wage and an end to age discrimination ‘built into’ minimum wage
The article Minimum wage rates go up in April first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Why the ‘National Living Wage’ is bad for Britain’s Young Workers
On the 1st April 2016 the Government brought in the ‘National Living Wage’ – essentially a slight increase on the national minimum wage, with a different name. Employers must now pay workers at least…Read more…
Real Living Wage benefits 3K businesses and their workers. Let’s make it 30K next year
The new Living Wage rates for London and the rest of the UK will be announced at 9.30 this morning. The announcement will also be made simultaneously in Glasgow, Cardiff and Manchester. I shall be at the London launch with the Mayor, Sadiq Khan. The re…Read more…
Five things we’ve learnt about pay today
Today – ASHE Wednesday in our office – saw the publication of the annual figures on pay across the UK (ASHE is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings). Here’s five things we’ve learnt: The National Living Wage is making a difference The introduction of the National Living Wage in April this year…Read more…
Despite Brexit worries and business lobbying, the PM must hold her nerve on minimum wage raises
In order to continue to take a place in the centre ground, the Prime Minister must stick to the government’s National Living Wage target for 2020, as this is now under some threat. When Greg Clark became business secretary, he immediately came under pressure to water down or delay the National…Read more…
On the offensive
TUC Frances O’Grady highlighted today (September 12) the importance of reaching out to young workers in a revitalised movement which places the concerns of the next generation of trade unionists at…Read more…
Record employment and profits bode well for minimum wage increase
Some employers have been lobbying the government to slow down or stall its minimum wage target for those aged 24 and above. The argument made is that post-referendum economic uncertainty will make the target impossible to meet. This is palpable nonsense. First, the Low Pay Commission (LPC) is…Read more…
Pay us our due
Workers at the 2 Sisters owned Pizza Factory in Nottingham started voting yesterday (May 23) on possible strike action in a dispute over an outstanding pay claim for 2015. Unite which is…Read more…
Fish firm’s workers face the sack
The row over Grimsby-based Icelandic Seachill, accused of paying for the new ‘national living wage’ by slashing overtime rates, has been taken to the European Commission, as the workforce faces the…Read more…
The National Living Wage: a defence
This morning’s labour market release told a similar story to what we’ve seen previously: insipid wage growth and slowly rising employment. Yet some commentators have assigned a special weight to today’s figures, take this piece in the Evening Standard on Monday for example. This is because that…Read more…