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BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff

Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees

The Guardian - UK

One in five low-income pensioners ‘could not afford an emergency £200 bill’

Three in 10 older people on low incomes said they are in some level of debt, according to the research for the Living Wage Foundation.

Evening Standard

Living Wage Foundation accused of accrediting firms not paying the living wage

Airline agency workers kept on minimum wage despite Living Wage Foundation’s fair pay pledge

The Guardian - UK

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London living wage rises to £13.85 per hour in boost to 140,000 workers

The wage rate is paid on a voluntary basis by the 4,000 London employers who have signed up to the benchmark set by the Living Wage Foundation

Evening Standard

IKEA Invests £35 Million in UK Co-workers' Financial Wellbeing Amidst Market Challenges

The retail giant plans to achieve this by implementing a series of measures, including pay increases aligned with the true cost of living and year-end bonuses tied to the company's FY23 performance.

International Business Times UK

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

Half a million more women than men are paid below real living wage and 13% are on zero-hours contracts

The Guardian - UK

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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Belfast Council becomes first in NI to give staff Living Wage

The Living Wage is £10.90, while the government 'National Wage' is £9.50

Belfast Live

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

Daily Mirror

ASDA announces pay rise for hourly-paid workers across its 633 stores

The supermarket's new rates of pay, beginning in April, are higher than the Government’s National Living Wage and the voluntary Real Living Wage recommended by the Living Wage Foundation

Manchester Evening News

Liverpool workers announce two more weeks of strikes as talks break down

Industrial action could go on indefinitely according to the PCS union

Liverpool Echo

Scottish Ikea staff get pay raise as part of £12 million cost-of-living investment

Swedish retail group also boosts benefits package with staff loans and free food

Insider UK

IKEA workers to get pay boost as part of £12m cost of living investment

The workers will receive on average a 6% pay increase as well as staff discount doubling

Liverpool Echo

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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Insider UK

The Real Living Wage could add £1.7 billion to the economy

Specifically in Scotland, the pay rise could add around £114m to the country's coffers

The Independent UK

Thousands of NHS workers not paid enough to live on, new figures show

Exclusive: ‘We’ve got a moral responsibility’, to pay living wage says NHS trust chief David Bradley

The Guardian - UK

Energy bills: older Britons will pay more but youngest will struggle most, report finds

Cost of living crisis affecting different generations in very different ways, says Resolution Foundation

The Independent UK

Number of Britons on poverty pay set to hit 5.1 million next year OLD

Exclusive: Another 1.6 million people will be pulled below real living wage rates, research shows

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Chronicle Live

Newcastle City Council gives lowest paid employees pay rise in line with Living Wage

The lowest paid employees at the council will now be on at £10.90 an hour

Daily Mirror

Ethnic minority Brits more likely to work in 'most precarious jobs' than white peers

Some 45% of all ethnic minority employees are given less than a week’s notice of their shifts, compared with 28% of white workers, according to a study by the Living Wage Foundation

Liverpool Echo

Aldi first UK supermarket to increase staff pay to minimum of £11 an hour

The supermarket employs more than 40,000 UK staff across the country.

Birmingham Post

University events company Nottingham Venues creating jobs following post-Covid bounce-back

It already employs almost 250 staff and has just received certification from the Living Wage Foundation

Wales Online

'The situation is worse than it ever was' - Lancashire residents tell how food banks are running dry

"Everybody who’s got money seems to want everything for nothing, but they’re not prepared to help those that haven’t, that are doing them the service."

Manchester Evening News

‘It’s a bad time’: Food banks run dry as demand rises and donations drop

“People can't help other people because they're only just managing themselves."

The Independent UK

Stormont minister welcomes largest increase in Living Wage

Finance Minister Conor Murphy welcomed the rise to £10.90 amid the rising cost of living.

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