'Real living wage' rises to £9.90/hr from today

MSE_Emily

More than 300,000 workers are due to receive a pay rise as the 'real living wage' has increased from today - and you'll earn £1,000s more each year compared to the Government's legal minimum wage...

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'Real living wage' rises to £9.90/hr from today

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Detail_Merchant

Typo:

"Under the changes, workers whose employers pay the real living wage will now earn the following rates, although employees have up to six months to implement the changes: "

should be (change in bold):

"Under the changes, workers whose employers pay the real living wage will now earn the following rates, although employers have up to six months to implement the changes: "

Alanp

And the £9.90 increase will be swallowed up when the ni contributions increase next year, and with the increases in fuel and food ect will only make it worse

kimwp

It's appalling that anyone is allowed to pay less than the real living wage.

Own_Worst_Enermy

Is there going to be any change to Employment law?

No

Well there's a shock.

Doesn't matter how much you rise pay if little 'boring' things become of less importance.

Interviewed at a franchise courier company years ago who expressed the very importance of being paid on time. It's a conversation regarding wages that has always been at the back of my mind. I'll always remember it. It would go on to trump 'bigger companies' care. What I didn't truly know then was this franchisee at the time was only 10 years older then myself.  Monday he got taken upstairs rather early, in reminder of living life with as little agro as possible? 

Apintplease

Id love to see all the advocates of living wage live on it

Im between NMW and NLW - 9.41 an hour and I dont have a spare penny anywhere and Im grateful for my wage as NMW is the norm around here

I work 30 hours a week so work that out yourselves, Im fortunate I have no mortgage to pay, thats paid. If I had to pay rent or mortgage, Id be looking at extra help

We ( where I work ) are praying that when the NMW goes up to 9.50 in April, that we have enough work that our boss can once again pay that bit more to us. Things are tough in our sector - food production for the hospitality sector  - we are being hit very hard with the restrictions 

£9.90 is seriously peanuts. Too much to claim UC, but you are seriously just existing, not living

Thrugelmir

Apintplease said:

Id love to see all the advocates of living wage live on it

Better than having none at all and providing employees with no protection. 

Takeaway_Addict

Apintplease said:

Id love to see all the advocates of living wage live on it

Im between NMW and NLW - 9.41 an hour and I dont have a spare penny anywhere and Im grateful for my wage as NMW is the norm around here

I work 30 hours a week so work that out yourselves, Im fortunate I have no mortgage to pay, thats paid. If I had to pay rent or mortgage, Id be looking at extra help

We ( where I work ) are praying that when the NMW goes up to 9.50 in April, that we have enough work that our boss can once again pay that bit more to us. Things are tough in our sector - food production for the hospitality sector  - we are being hit very hard with the restrictions 

£9.90 is seriously peanuts. Too much to claim UC, but you are seriously just existing, not living

So you get £1100 a month and with no mortgage/rent are struggling- where does it go if you don't mind me asking?

Apintplease

Takeaway_Addict said:

Apintplease said:

Id love to see all the advocates of living wage live on it

Im between NMW and NLW - 9.41 an hour and I dont have a spare penny anywhere and Im grateful for my wage as NMW is the norm around here

I work 30 hours a week so work that out yourselves, Im fortunate I have no mortgage to pay, thats paid. If I had to pay rent or mortgage, Id be looking at extra help

We ( where I work ) are praying that when the NMW goes up to 9.50 in April, that we have enough work that our boss can once again pay that bit more to us. Things are tough in our sector - food production for the hospitality sector  - we are being hit very hard with the restrictions 

£9.90 is seriously peanuts. Too much to claim UC, but you are seriously just existing, not living

So you get £1100 a month and with no mortgage/rent are struggling- where does it go if you don't mind me asking?

Well lets see, Diesel is £1.46 a litre - £30 a week now to get to and from work and into town for the shopping, health care etc
Food shop for three adults, one cat, one dog is 40 to 60 quid a week
Heating oil - is up to 50p a litre - 4000 litres a year -£40 a week
Electric is now up to £80 a month -£20 a week
Smokeless ovals now for the winter are also up - £30 a week
Road tax and insurance , mot and servicing  - £10 a week
TV licence £3
House insurances , pet insurances, life insurances - About £30
broadband/phone line £7 a week
Phone contract £5

Dentist £1 a week 
Hair dresser £3

Around £220 a week before I think about clothes, leisure etc

I take home £257

Cost of living in NI is a lot higher then on the mainland. Being very rural means I need a car to get anywhere - theres no public transport. We dont pay water charges but we rely on oil for heating which is paid upfront . Even with keeping the heating down as low as possible and only on for a few hours a day, we need 4 fills a year and this year its double what it was this time last year. We never did have the options of loads of electric companies, Im on the lowest tariff as it is but its going up another 24% next month. All solid fuel is up in price, luckily we felled a few trees last year so some of that is ready for burning this year. Fuel costs are rocketing and thats taking a huge part of my income.

Apintplease

Jillanddy said:

I sympathise. And I know you were asked.  But that is all irrelevant. It still comes down to the fact that you are expecting someone else to fix this. Whether that be your government,  your employer, or the taxpayer.  What are you doing to fix it? Are you in a union?  What are you doing to fight for better wages and conditions,  for yourself and everyone else? 

It was me who had the balls to ask for this pay rise

Im not asking anyone to sort anything for me, nor am I asking for sympathy ,I was just pointing out the fact that its not easy to live on NMW or Living wage  and I did just post the reply as I was asked where my money went because obviously I was peeing it up a wall

Im happy in my work, I wake up happy, stay happy every day and come home happy - if bloody knackered  

Another couple of years and I can retire and I shall then be well off, because I havent always worked in NMW jobs, Ive only be doing these since illness made me have to revaluate what was important to me. I do have a very healthy NHS pension waiting for me, full state pension plus a private pension. Wont be rich but I will be a lot better off then I am now

Thrugelmir

Apintplease said:

Jillanddy said:

I sympathise. And I know you were asked.  But that is all irrelevant. It still comes down to the fact that you are expecting someone else to fix this. Whether that be your government,  your employer, or the taxpayer.  What are you doing to fix it? Are you in a union?  What are you doing to fight for better wages and conditions,  for yourself and everyone else? 

It was me who had the balls to ask for this pay rise

Im not asking anyone to sort anything for me, nor am I asking for sympathy ,I was just pointing out the fact that its not easy to live on NMW or Living wage  and I did just post the reply as I was asked where my money went because obviously I was peeing it up a wall

Im happy in my work, I wake up happy, stay happy every day and come home happy - if bloody knackered  

Another couple of years and I can retire and I shall then be well off, because I havent always worked in NMW jobs, Ive only be doing these since illness made me have to revaluate what was important to me. I do have a very healthy NHS pension waiting for me, full state pension plus a private pension. Wont be rich but I will be a lot better off then I am now

Throughout my working life. I voted in the only way I could. With my feet.  Worked for the good, the indifferent and the bad.