minimum wage
19p should be the first step towards a mandatory living wage
When the National Minimum Wage is increased in the autumn, it will remain far below a living wage and will leave millions earning poverty wages.
The government is messing low paid workers around for political capital
It's a shame the government has to mess around millions of low paid workers for a relatively small amount of political capital.
A minimum wage increase is long overdue
An increase in the minimum wage is long overdue.
Graph: How the minimum has failed to keep up with the cost of living
As the graph from Green Party London Assembly member Jenny Jones shows, the National Minimum Wage has failed to keep up with London's rising cost of living.
The minimum wage at 15 – fully grown-up?
There is a strong consensus that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) has been a success yet, quite rightly, we are still worried about low pay. Can we do more with the NMW, or should we be thinking about a whole platter of policies to bring about fairer pay?
A mandatory living wage – the debate we need to have
If we don’t raise wages, control rents or reverse welfare cuts, we are going to completely price low paid workers out of London.