All news on the topic: National Living Wage

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Aldi gives thousands of workers second pay rise this year to £12.40 an hour
The new pay rates will be introduced from 1 June this year with Aldi noting that it is "the highest level of entry pay ever to be paid by a British supermarket"
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HMRC issues 'check your pay' warning to thousands of Brits ahead of Christmas
HMRC says seasonal staff and students on short-term contracts working in shops, hotels, Christmas markets, garden centres, restaurants and warehouses, are legally entitled to the same minimum wage rates as other permanent workers
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Exact date millions of workers across UK will get £1,000 pay boost
The National Living Wage is the legal minimum wage businesses pay workers aged 23 and over for each hour they work. Currently, the rate of pay stands at £10.42 an hour - but from next year this will rise to £11
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Exact pay rise 1.7million workers will get in April in National Living Wage hike
Latest data from the Resolution Foundation suggests that workers aged 23 and over will have to be paid an hourly rate of at least £11.46 hourly rate from next year
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Half a million workers across the UK handed pay rise today after major change
The Living Wage Foundation said its rates will increase from £10.90 to £12 an hour outside of London, and from £11.95 to £13.15 an hour inside the capital
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Inflation-busting pay rise announced for 460,000 low-paid workers - see rates
The Living Wage Foundation today releases its annual rates - and the inflation-busting hike will help boost the budgets of hundreds of thousands struggling in the cost of living crisis
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Difference between National Living Wage and Real Living Wage explained
We explain the difference between the National Living Wage and the National Minimum wage and how they will change in April next year
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Foodbank heartache as two in five lowest-paid workers forced to rely on handouts
Grim research shows how 39% of people earning less than the Real Living Wage of £10.90 an hour turned to foodbanks in the past month amid the cost-of-living crisis
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Six million workers stuck in 'insecure jobs' left struggling to pay bills
Campaigners highlighted the difficulties faces by grafters who cannot rely on regular shifts amid the economic struggle facing Britain
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Firms paying Real Living Wage to workers say boosting wages is good for business
Research reveals bosses believe the benefits are worth signing up to the voluntary scheme, which pays staff more than the Government's legal minimum
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£15-an-hour wage for carers would deliver £7.7bn economic boost - see your area
Workers' leaders today demand a pay hike for carers in a move aimed at filling the 165,000 vacancies blighting the sector and easing gender and race pay gaps
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Voters demand pay boost for struggling carers to make them equal with NHS staff
A petition calls on the Government to place care workers on Band 3 of the NHS's national pay scheme - giving carers a much-needed salary hike
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Bid to boost social carers' pay and ease chronic crisis clears first stage
A Labour backbencher's Bill to enforce rules around carers being paid for travel time has passed its first Commons hurdle - and is due to back in front of MPs in six months
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Social care 'lowest paid of any job in Britain', spluttering top Tory is told
Care Minister Helen Whately faced a tough 90 minutes of questioning from MPs on the Commons Health and Social Care Committee over wage rates and chronic levels of vacancies
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Difference between minimum pay and Real Living Wage 'worth 14 weeks of food'
The analysis comes from the Living Wage Foundation as the Government's legal pay floor rises on Saturday - sparking calls for companies to go even further if they can afford to
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Hike sick pay in line with wages so ill workers can take time off, voters demand
General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak says millions of people get just £99-a-week - 'nothing like what a family needs to get by'
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Primark giving 26,000 shop workers a pay rise from April - see new hourly rates
Primark said the wage increase follows the retailer's plan announced last November of investing at least £140million in the UK high street over the next two years
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Most pension savers fear they will never be able to even retire, poll shows
The study comes as the Living Pension scheme is launched by the fair pay campaigners behind the Real Living Wage crusade
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Supermarket staff pay ranked - including Tesco, Morrisons, Aldi and Asda
Calls for wage increases have come from the retail and hospitality sectors as workers' pay is solely based on the hours they work and some supermarkets have listened
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Millions of women's jobs paid less than the Real Living Wage, research shows
The study comes as the world prepares to mark International Women's Day next week with a focus on "equity"- and the Living Wage Foundation said: "True equity needs to start with a Real Living Wage"
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Boost for 45,000 workers as firms sign up to 'Living Hours' pledge
The scheme, devised by the Living Wage Foundation, aims to provide staff with a guaranteed minimum number of hours each week - and "decent" notice of cancellations
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Paying carers Real Living Wage could help ease NHS crisis, say campaigners
The Living Wage Foundation believes lifting the pay of tens of thousands of care workers could encourage more staff into the sector, relieving pressure on the health service