The new collection of essays looks at how the minimum wage could evolve
The article UNISON publishes report on the future of the minimum wage first appeared on the UNISON National site.
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The new collection of essays looks at how the minimum wage could evolve
The article UNISON publishes report on the future of the minimum wage first appeared on the UNISON National site.
The new collection of essays looks at how the minimum wage could evolve
The article UNISON publishes report on the future of the minimum wage first appeared on the UNISON National site.
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
The article Delegates back…Read more…
Extra cash is little comfort after universal credit cut and national insurance rise
The article Minimum wage rise – low-income families need boost now first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Labour’s move to close legal loophole is welcome
The article Exploitation of care workers must end, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Call comes after the government ‘names and shames’ companies in England and Wales for flouting minimum wage legislation
The article UNISON urges councils to ensure care staff are properly paid first…Read more…
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady gave a powerful opening speech this morning (September 14) of the first day of the first online-only Congress in the union confederation’s 152 year history….Read more…
New minimum pay rates come into force for many key workers, including care staff
The article New minimum wages rates take effect from today first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Great photo of our former UNISON Housing Associations branch manager & organiser, Josephine Grahl, with Jez and Dave Prentis, celebrating 20 years of National Minimum wage (and campaigning for all workers to be paid the same)
Josephine is now…Read more…
UNISON launches #OneWageAnyWage campaign is it celebrates 20 years of the national minimum wage
The article One wage for all ages first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Twenty years on from the bold, landmark decision to establish a National Minimum Wage, it is time for a new landmark – a real Living Wage for all, regardless of age, that everyone in work can afford…Read more…
Union says stewards need to make sure employers are paying the proper amounts when the new wage rates come into force on 1 April
The article UNISON urges vigilance as new minimum wages rates are due…Read more…
The government must reverse its cuts to universal credit so that workers are allowed to keep more of the money they earn every month, says UNISON today (Thursday). Millions of workers on the minimum…Read more…
Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco
The article Bolton members vote to strike over pay equality first appeared…Read more…
Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise
The article Bolton hospital workers to ballot on action for pay parity first appeared…Read more…
‘We believe the Court of Appeal got this decision completely wrong and will do everything we can to reverse it’
The article UNISON seeks leave to appeal on sleep-in case first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
This judgement is bad news for hundreds of thousands of low paid care workers (including my
niece).
Being paid not even the national minimum wage for work is simply a disgrace. I hope UNISON lawyers can find a way forward on this.
If not we need to …Read more…
A report published this week shows how a rise in the minimum wage would see 9 million workers better off. And that can only be good for the country, Unite director of research John Earls writes….Read more…
One in five people working in the UK do not earn enough to live on – that’s about 5m people earning below the Living Wage, a rate calculated by an independent foundation to reflect the real cost of…Read more…
UNISON is looking for people who are on the national minimum wage – currently £7.50 an hour – and who also get universal credit
The article Are you receiving universal credit? Have your say first…Read more…