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Implementing The Living Wage: A Toolkit For NHS Organisations

This toolkit has been created for NHS organisations to help them implement the Living Wage. It includes the accreditation process as well as case studies and advice from existing accredited NHS…

| Joe Richardson, August 2023

Precarious pay and uncertain hours: insecure work in the UK Labour Market.

Several shockwaves have been sent through the UK Labour Market over recent years. Covid-19 saw all non-essential economic activity grind to a halt, leaving millions of workers furloughed and a…

| Edmund Heery, David Nash, Deborah Hann

Twenty years of the Living Wage - The Employer Experience

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To mark 10 years of Living Wage Employer accreditation, we joined up with Cardiff Business School

| Sakinah Abdul Aziz, Joe Richardson

London's Low Pay Landscape

Living costs in London are some of the highest in the world. As such, the experience of low pay in London is often even more challenging than in other parts of the UK. For most of the last decade…

| Sakinah Abdul Aziz and Joe Richardson

EMPLOYEE JOBS BELOW THE REAL LIVING WAGE 2022

This is the eleventh annual update to the 'employee jobs paid below the Living Wage' report, which uses data from the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings (…

| Sakinah Abdul Aziz and Joe Richardson

THE LIVING HOURS INDEX 2: EXPLORING THE ETHNICITY HOURS GAP

The UK is facing the worst cost-of-living-crisis in almost half a century, and no one is feeling the squeeze more than the nation’s 4.8m workers paid less than the real Living Wage. Earning a wage…

Case studies

Find out more about how employers have implemented the Living Wage, Living Hours and what it's meant for their business.