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MARCH 29, 2023

Midlands-based law firm Higgs has received accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation. Employees at the firm will receive a minimum hourly wage of £10.90, exceeding the government’s minimum wage rate of £9.50 The post Higgs accredited as living wage employer appeared first on Employee Benefits.

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MARCH 7, 2024

John Lewis Partnership and the Co-op are to increase their minimum pay rates for 2024. The Co-op has reaffirmed its commitment to paying the real living wage as recommended by the Living Wage Foundation, increasing its minimum hourly wage from £10.90 Tesco will increase its minimum rate to £12.02 in London.

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MAY 12, 2023

As the cost of living continues to spiral, a new report shows more than half of gig economy workers in the UK are paid below the minimum wage. The study , led by the University of Bristol, found 52 percent of gig workers doing jobs ranging from data entry to food delivery were earning below the minimum wage.

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JULY 28, 2023

Its Global life-work balance index, which assesses the quality of work-life balance in the world’s top 60 GDP countries, ranking each nation out of 100, ranked the UK in eighth place. Meanwhile, the UK received a score of 69.07. Remote uses the phrase ‘life-work balance’ as it believes life is more important than work.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Living Wage Foundation has announced new living wage rates for London and across the UK in order to provide a cost-of-living pay boost. an hour, while the UK-wide one increased by £1.10 an hour, while the UK-wide one increased by £1.10 The London rate rose by £1.20 to £12 an hour. The London rate rose by £1.20

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Credit: ClimbWhenReady / Shutterstock B&Q has announced that it will be increasing its minimum hourly rate to £12.21 B&Q’s minimum hourly rate of pay will be 77p per hour above the government’s national living wage of £11.44 per hour, and 21p per hour above the Real Living Wage of £12.00 per hour.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Autumn budget 2022: The government has agreed to raise the national living wage by 9.7% In his autumn budget address to the House of Commons, Chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt (pictured) stated that he had accepted recommendations made by the Low Pay Commission to increase the national living wage to £10.42 from April 2023.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Employee Benefits poll: Almost half (45%) of organisations think the new real living wage rates of at least £12 per hour go far enough to support employees, according to a survey of Employee Benefits readers. One-third (35%) said they did not think the new real living wage rates go far enough to support employees, whereas 20% were unsure.

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MAY 4, 2023

Social care charity Making Space has increased pay by 10%, or the equivalent of £1,950 per year for full-time staff, in order to bring wages up to the level of the living wage. Making Space confirmed that it will pay all employees nationwide a minimum of £10.90

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MARCH 6, 2024

But, when budgets are tight, employers must get creative to ensure staff on minimum pay rates are happy and motivated. Analysis by the Living Wage Foundation, Employee jobs paid below the real living wage 2023, published in February 2024, found that 3.7 million UK jobs paid below the real living wage in April 2023.

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MARCH 12, 2024

The organisation, which has more than 1,000 stores, 11 regional distribution centres and 45,000 employees across Britain, will increase its national minimum pay rate from £12 per hour to £12.40 Its minimum rate is in line with the real living wage set by the Living Wage Foundation. outside the M25, and from £13.55

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Gripple, a South Yorkshire-based manufacturer of wire joiners, tensioners and suspension solutions, and its sister returnable packaging solutions firm Loadhog, have received living wage employer accreditation. Employees and contractors at Gripple and Loadhog over the age of 18 will now earn a minimum of £12 per hour, an increase of £1.10

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JUNE 23, 2023

The top 10 most-read articles on www.employeebenefits.co.uk pay rise British Standards Institute publishes inclusive workplace guidance The post The top 10 most-read articles between 16 – 22 June 2023 appeared first on Employee Benefits.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The measures include paying all of its 2,300 members of staff at or above the new rate set by the Living Wage Foundation from today (1 December), ahead of the implementation deadline of 14 May 2023. Living wage salaries have been raised to £10.90 per hour across the UK and £11.95

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APRIL 26, 2024

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The national living wage is to increase from April 2024. The national minimum wage for those aged 18 to 20 will also increase to £8.60 Employers need to ensure that they always pay at least the statutory minimums in the applicable pay reference period. an hour in London and £12 an hour for the rest of the UK.”

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MARCH 27, 2023

The UK government has implemented legislation designed to protect seafarers from receiving pay levels below the national minimum wage. The Seafarers’ Wages Act received Royal Assent on Friday 23 March, preventing firms from using legal loopholes to pay low wages to seafarers.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Oxfordshire-based Sky Wave Gin has received living wage accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation. As a result of this commitment, all Sky Wave Gin employees will now receive a minimum hourly wage of £10.90, which is higher than the government minimum rate for those aged 23 and over, currently standing at £10.42

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com Online retailer Amazon has announced that it will increase its minimum salary for frontline operations employees as part of a £170 million investment as of 15 October. Minimum starting pay for all full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal roles will rise to between £11.80 and £12.50

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MARCH 4, 2024

for stores inside the M25, to meet the new national minimum wage. The new rates will exceed the government’s national living wage, the real living wage and London living wage as recommended by the Living Wage Foundation, and will apply to more than 120,000 employees in Asda Retail and Asda Express.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The top 10 most-read articles on employeebenefits.co.uk for 2023 The post The top 10 most-read articles between 16 – 22 February 2024 appeared first on Employee Benefits. The top 10 most-read articles on employeebenefits.co.uk

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Aldi has announced that it will increase the hourly pay rates for its 28,000 members of staff from 1 February 2022 in a bid to maintain its position as one of the UK’s highest-paying supermarkets. All UK-based store assistants at the German-owned grocery chain are set to receive at least £10.10 an hour outside London and £11.05

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APRIL 2, 2024

From this month, the social enterprise has agreed to increase sick pay for all of its employees, including its leisure workers across the UK. They were undertaking strike action in a demand for immediate changes to sick pay schemes and new minimum pay rates for 2023 and 2024.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Educational charity Success4All has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation. To gain accreditation, the charity committed to paying its workforce a minimum hourly wage of £10.90, which is higher than the £9.50

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MARCH 7, 2022

Back-up care and nursery provider Bright Horizons UK has announced that it will invest more than £10 million in its early years practitioners’ salaries and benefits next month in order to recognise differences in the cost of living across the UK. This means all employees will be on or above the NMW, which is set to go up to £9.50

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Roofing services firm Chew Valley Roofing has become accredited as a living wage employer. The organisation has committed to pay every member of staff a minimum hourly wage of £10.90, which is higher than the government minimum for those aged 23 and above, which currently stands at £9.50 per hour and £11.95

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

More than six in 10 low-paid workers believe receiving the real living wage would improve their mental health , research has revealed. The real living wage is currently set at £9.90 per hour across the UK except in London where it is £11.05. The real living wage is currently set at £9.90 for those aged 23 or older.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sports and leisure business Levy UK has committed to pay its more than 1,000 employees the real living wage as a minimum from 1 January 2023. Staff will earn an hourly wage of at least £10.90, which is the real living wage rate for employees across the UK, with those based in London on £11.95

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Glasgow City Council has been accredited as a living wage employer as part of its commitment to pay all of its more than 28,000 employees a wage they can live on. Everyone working at the local authority, including regular workers employed through third-party suppliers, will now receive a minimum hourly wage of at least £10.90

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Law firm Fragomen is to implement pay increases and minimum salary levels for both local employees and foreign nationals. From 4 April 2024, the firm’s employees aged 21 years and older will be paid a minimum of £11.44, up from the current rate of £10.42 In addition, its skilled worker route minimum salary will increase by 47.7%

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Its employees will now receive a contract reflecting actual hours worked, as per the living hours standard, and will be able to work a minimum of 16 contracted hours per week, unless they request otherwise. In addition, living hours accreditation requires employers to pay all employees over the age of 18 the real living wage rate of £13.15

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MARCH 22, 2023

Online retail business Amazon has given its UK operations employees a pay increase as part of a more than £125 million pay investment made over the past seven months. The minimum starting pay for UK hourly paid Amazon workers will be raised to between £11 and £12 per hour, depending on their location. across the UK and £11.95

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

UK Amazon workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of further strikes in January this year, having taken over 30 days of industrial action in the past 12 months. Amazon’s minimum starting pay is between £11.80 An Amazon spokesperson said: “We regularly review our pay to ensure we offer competitive wages and benefits.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The UK has been ranked 11th out of 37 countries for its work-life balance – with the Netherlands in the number one spot. In contrast, workers in the the UK were said to put in an average of 36.2 hours a week on a typical wage of £18.23 The post UK ranks 11th for work-life balance appeared first on Employee Benefits.

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JUNE 19, 2023

Bristol Airport has become a living wage employer after receiving real living wage accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation. an hour national minimum wage. Annual rates are calculated by the Resolution Foundation based on a basket of everyday goods and overseen by the Living Wage Commission.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Credit: Fred Duval / Shutterstock.com Something for the weekend: American singer Alecia Moore, known professionally as Pink, has revealed that her daughter will be working a minimum wage job while she travels and performs with her on tour this year. We just had to go over minimum wage and it’s different state to state.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

This is the first strike by Amazon employees to take place in the UK. Amazon UK Services reported that it paid just £10.8 In fact, according to the verified figures, only a fraction of 1% of our UK employees voted in the ballot, and that includes those who voted against industrial action. and £11.45

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