Thursday 26 June 2014

"The living wage offers a better future for the UK's one million working poor"

The Living Wage Commission has published its final report, in which it recommends that all public sector staff should be paid living wage, and that the government should encourage the private sector to do likewise.

Here is the Commission's Chair, the Archbishop of York, writing in the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/24/living-wage-brighter-future-one-million-working-poor

And here is the report itself:
http://livingwagecommission.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Work-that-pays_The-Final-Report-of-The-Living-Wage-Commission_w-3.pdf