National living wage ‘failing to provide basic needs for lowest paid’
![The Living Wage Commission said the fall in take-home pay had left millions of workers struggling to make ends meet [Image: Nick Ansell/PA].](https://voxpoliticalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160921-money-Nick-Ansell-PA.png)
The Living Wage Commission said the fall in take-home pay had left millions of workers struggling to make ends meet [Image: Nick Ansell/PA].
And what do you think the Conservative Government will do about it?
I’ll tell you: Nothing.
The ‘national living wage’ (NLW) falls short of providing a decent standard of income to low-paid staff and will need to increase sharply to offset rising rents and slowing wages growth, according to campaigners against low pay.
After a six-month review, the Living Wage Commission said it had assessed the “best available evidence on living standards” and concluded that the £7.20 an hour NLW for the over 25s, introduced in April, was failing to provide the basic needs of low-paid households.
The commission said the fall in take-home pay across the country after the 2008 banking collapse, and slow wages growth in the past eight years, had left millions of workers struggling to make ends meet.
Wages need to increase at a faster rate than rising rents, petrol prices and heating bills to continue closing the gap with higher-paid workers, the commission said.
Source: National living wage ‘failing to provide basic needs for lowest paid’ | UK news | The Guardian
ADVERT
Join the Vox Political Facebook page.
If you have appreciated this article, don’t forget to share it using the buttons at the bottom of this page. Politics is about everybody – so let’s try to get everybody involved!
Vox Political needs your help!
If you want to support this site
(but don’t want to give your money to advertisers)
you can make a one-off donation here:
Buy Vox Political books so we can continue
fighting for the facts.
Health Warning: Government! is now available
in either print or eBook format here:
The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
ah universal credit will fix that, as so many have to claim credits to top up their wages because they are so low, then people will be able to trot of to the job centre to find a higher paying job or take on extra employment, because it’s so easy and there are plenty of higher paid jobs, you even get friendly phone calls to help you look for work even if your actually working, that’s if UC gets rolled out all across the country of course, not forgetting if your a parent working part time so you can look after the kids there’s free child care now too. Christ I bloody hate the cruel mess the Tories dish out, it has to change, please let it change :'(
we had a way round this it was called benefits but sadly they even took this away while they our elected help themselves to numerous payrises oh dear oh dear
Many Tories resent even having to provide this meagre amount. They yearn for the days of the Poor Law and Workhouses.
Its all part of the tory master plan to take the country back as maggy put it to the 30s thats the 1830 and the Blairits in the Labour Party have helped the tories achieve there objectives with the in fighting
Yep. But worse is the fact that working-age benefits have been frozen for the next four years while costs increase and people with no wage at all are expected to pay previously undreamed of costs, e.g., 25% of the ever increasing Council Tax, from benefits designed to be barely adequate to pay for essential like food and water with no provision having been made for the new additional costs.
and yet those way above the minimum wage need vast pay rises, funny that an mp can’t live on daily income more than a month for the minimum wage earners isn’t it.