Tory minimum wage proposals toothless without proper enforcement
Number of underpaid workers could reach just under a million by 2024 — with no plan to ensure extra pennies reach those who need them.
Number of underpaid workers could reach just under a million by 2024 — with no plan to ensure extra pennies reach those who need them.
Low paid workers are speaking up for better wages. The next government must help make it happen.
“When we’re suffering, you’re not alone. It’s not just you, it’s so many people that are part of this.”
The research will be seized upon by living wage campaigners
Labour introduced it despite Tory opposition
The Chancellor’s cash for “little extras” is seen as insulting to schools who’ve been cut for eight years
A report published this week shows how a rise in the minimum wage would see 9 million workers better off. And that can only be good for the country, John Earls writes.
The number of workers on low pay is increasing and more are finding that employers are not honouring the minimum wage laws.
Most carer workers are still being paid well under the national minimum wage. And the government isn’t doing anything about it.
Limited liability for shareholders has conferred unlimited liability on people. It’s time corporations were democratised.