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Living wage

June 2024

  • Matt photographed in a housing estate.

    ‘I literally work to pay bills’: A care worker’s struggle to make ends meet

    As research reveals half of care workers in England earn less than living wage, Matt shares his own struggle in the sector

May 2024

  • Banknotes and bank cards held up in a black leather wallet

    Are consumers any better off after 14 years of Conservative government?

    We analyse a key point of contention in the general election campaign: the government’s record on pay, housing, energy and food bills

April 2024

  • a purple-coloured Ocado delivery van pictured on the road

    Ocado pay backlash looms as firm moves to offer boss £14.8m package

  • Man empties bag into wheelie bin

    Rise in UK minimum wage leaves millions short of real living wage

February 2024

  • Closed Brewdog bar in Milton Keynes.

    I pay staff in my small bookshop more than the living wage, so why can’t big businesses?

  • Brewdog founders Martin Dickie and James Watt

    ‘It’s sad’: is the UK real living wage under threat as Capita and BrewDog pull out?

January 2024

  • Bar staff serve drinks at a launch event for the BrewDog Waterloo in London.

    BrewDog faces staff backlash after dropping real living wage pledge

    New workers now hired on legal minimum wage and pay frozen for London bar staff amid trading losses

November 2023

  • The chancellor leaving Downing Street for the House of Commons last Wednesday.

    No bounce for the Tories after tax-cutting budget, poll shows

  • Jeremy Hunt

    Autumn statement 2023: key points at a glance

October 2023

  • A woman walks past a Lush shop

    Real living wage rises to £12 an hour as cost of living crisis continues

  • Prime minister Rishi Sunak, centre, during the Conservative party conference in Manchester.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak accused of presiding over ‘chaos’ as Tory conference braces for news of HS2 Manchester leg cancellation – as it happened

May 2023

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    The UK’s world beating minimum wage is not as good as it appears

    Torsten Bell
  • Neil Jameson, Executive Director of Citizens UK, the grassroots group that campaigns for the Living Wage. Photo by Linda Nylind. 11/9/2015.

    Neil Jameson obituary

April 2023

  • Cleaner polishing the mirror in a hotel

    Help low-paid workers or face curbs to bosses’ pay, fund managers tell UK firms

    Investment managers join call for companies to pay real living wage across entire supply chains

March 2023

  • A staff member restocks Aldi's store in Tarleton, UK, in 2022

    Aldi raises UK shop worker pay for fourth time in just over a year

  • A chambermaid cleans a bathroom

    Women in UK ‘more likely than men to be on low pay and struggling’

January 2023

  • Riverford Farm organic vegetable box for home delivery.

    Vegetable box firm Riverford doubles payout to founder despite profits plunge

    Appetite for organic food continues from Covid boom but firm warns inflation and rising costs are eating into profits
  • The interior of Aldi's Bolton distribution centre

    Aldi increases pay for UK warehouse workers for third time in a year

    Supermarket’s rise to £13.18 on 1 February puts its hourly minimum rate 20% ahead of January 2022
  • A Sainsbury’s employee arranges produce inside a supermarket in Richmond, west London.

    Sainsbury’s to pay at least £11 an hour for 127,000 lowest-paid workers

    Third pay increase in year gives staff 7.3% rise amid fierce competition to retain and recruit employees

November 2022

  • Dominique Edwards, a local teacher, at a protest about low pay outside a care home in Haringey.

    Campaigners demand action as London workers struggle for real living wage

    Outer borough of Haringey tops UK league for low-paid jobs relative to local cost of living
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