This week is Living Wage Week! Running from 30th October to 5th November, Living Wage Week is an opportunity to celebrate the success of our local Living Wage campaign and raise its profile.
We were delighted to announce last week that over 300 businesses have joined the campaign. There are now 303 employers and nearly 3,000 salaries have been elevated as a result.
We asked recently asked businesses that have signed up to the campaign to fill in a survey about their experiences. Here are some of the interesting things we found:
Celebrate Living Wage Week with us. We’ve put together a list of suggestions to help you:
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We offer a high-end service to our clients, therefore we expect a high-end job from our staff. This can only be achieved if your staff feel supported and valued and offering the living wage is the very 1st place to start.
We agree that all employees should be paid the real Living Wage.
"Parentskool is a social enterprise that puts people before profit. Signing up to the Living Wage Brighton Campaign is a logical step for any organisation that claims to be ethical in its treatment of its most valuable resources: the people who work for them. We are proud to be part of the campaign and encourage…
We support the living wage campaign as frankly, the living costs in the city are, outside of London, one of the highest in the UK. Employees need that extra income boost and security that comes with a higher hourly wage.
We believe in paying our staff fairly, and supporting schemes such as this to show our commitment to them and honour a living wage which is beneficial to their standard of living. We want to do everything we can to support this campaign and the reality of living costs for our staff.
