Living wage in London

teajug

An investigation has found The Body Shop and Selfridges are the 2 stores that pays a living wage in Oxford street London.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/oxford-street-stores-dont-pay-london-living-wage-36832

There are other large PLC retails in Oxford street that doing very and do not pay their staff a living wage, which is disgraceful.

MissSarah1972

teajug wrote: »

An investigation has found The Body Shop and Selfridges are the 2 stores that pays a living wage in Oxford street London.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/oxford-street-stores-dont-pay-london-living-wage-36832

There are other large PLC retails in Oxford street that doing very and do not pay their staff a living wage, which is disgraceful.

How much is a living wage then? I just applied for an accounts role in Selfridges paying £15k!!!

teajug

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

How much is a living wage then? I just applied for an accounts role in Selfridges paying £15k!!!

My post said that Selfridges were one of the 2 stores that pays the living wage for workers in Oxford Street!!! :T

MissSarah1972

teajug wrote: »

My post said that Selfridges were one of the 2 stores that pays the living wage for workers in Oxford Street!!! :T

Yeah I know what it said but can't be 100% true as the London Living Wage in 2011 was £8.30 per hour & I doubt they pay anthing like that regardless of the others not paying anything near it.

What is the living wage now?

teajug

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

Yeah I know what it said but can't be 100% true as the London Living Wage in 2011 was £8.30 per hour & I doubt they pay anthing like that regardless of the others not paying anything near it.

What is the living wage now?

As far as I know the living wage is £8.30 an hour in London. (Maybe you know different). My granddaughter works for a large retailer in London for the last 8 years and her hourly pay is £8.30, therefore she started on the minimum wage just like all other employees taken on since then.

http://www.citizensuk.org/campaigns/living-wage-campaign/

agrinnall

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

Yeah I know what it said but can't be 100% true as the London Living Wage in 2011 was £8.30 per hour & I doubt they pay anthing like that regardless of the others not paying anything near it.

What is the living wage now?

This link suggests that the minimum paid by Selfridge's to its workers in Oxford Street in 2011 was £8.39 per hour, but not necessarily as much elsewhere - is the job that you have applied for in Oxford Street?

MissSarah1972

agrinnall wrote: »

This link suggests that the minimum paid by Selfridge's to its workers in Oxford Street in 2011 was £8.39 per hour, but not necessarily as much elsewhere - is the job that you have applied for in Oxford Street?

The job I have applied for is at Selfridges in Oxford Street paying £15k for a 40 hour week in the accounts dept.

Maybe it's an average and takes into account all the management who are on a lot lot more.

theoretica

If the 40 hours includes an unpaid hour for lunch each day, so really 35 hours paid, it wouldn't be far off the living wage - £8.30 an hour would give £15106.

MissSarah1972

theoretica wrote: »

If the 40 hours includes an unpaid hour for lunch each day, so really 35 hours paid, it wouldn't be far off the living wage - £8.30 an hour would give £15106.

No its 9am to 6pm with one hour lunch still paying £15k

agrinnall

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

No its 9am to 6pm with one hour lunch still paying £15k

In that case if you get an interview it might be worth asking if they do pay London living wage, perhaps the department advertising this job haven't got the message yet.

teajug

agrinnall wrote: »

In that case if you get an interview it might be worth asking if they do pay London living wage, perhaps the department advertising this job haven't got the message yet.

It appears that the living wage in London should be £8.55 ph. I think all large retail stores in Oxford street do not pay this, or will pay this amount to their staff , but I expect they will pay their Managers, Directors and CEO's much larger amounts then the living wage.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/9655358/Boris-Johnson-joins-Labours-calls-for-living-wage.html