Don’t believe the Tory propaganda – the ‘National Living Wage’ rise is leaving people WORSE-OFF
Big announcement from the Treasury today:
Good news alert!
✅ The National Living Wage is going up to £8.21 an hour today.
👉 Check your pay to make sure you’re getting the increase.
👍🏾 #ChangesForYouhttps://t.co/iX9sS83qe9 pic.twitter.com/Zz6Okb9e3Y— HM Treasury (@hmtreasury) April 1, 2019
But is it really such a great thing?
Today the government's ‘National Living Wage’ rises to £8.21 for over 25’s. Despite this, #NLW workers are over £1500 worse off than workers on the real #LivingWage. Join over 5000 employers going further than the gov minimum. https://t.co/3ryUFCq3YP pic.twitter.com/vqJgvQNcMr
— Living Wage Foundation (@LivingWageUK) April 1, 2019
That means people on the so-called National Living Wage are earning £1,540 per year less than they would need to break even in the current economic climate.
It means they still have to claim benefits, which means (in turn) that the National Living Wage is no such thing.
(But we knew that already.)
What’s the solution? Here it is:
Twenty years ago today Labour introduced the National Minimum Wage.
The next Labour government will raise it to £10 per hour and ban zero-hours contracts. pic.twitter.com/H22qw52JyK
— Scottish Labour (@ScottishLabour) April 1, 2019
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And of course, every person on Universal Credit will see their benefit withdrawn at 63p for every pound they gain in increased minimum wage. Thus some one on 30 hrs a week minimum wage will get £11.40 extra wage in a week compared to last week, but will lose £7.18 in UC. Assuming they’ve been able to claim it of course!
I got £12 an hour as a private cleaner with holiday pay and sickness pay, as I was well regarded by my employers in 2004. Nmw should be £14 outside London, and £20 in London.
Businesses shouldn’t pass costs onto staff by paying them less. If they told the bank they’re not getting their full charges, or the landlord he’s not getting his full rent, or the council their full rates, lawyers their full fees or suppliers their full bill they’d be run out of business. Staff pay is a business cost that needs to be met like every other cost.
Labour don’t just need to ban zero hour contracts, they need to ban timewasting agencies and all the other rotten employment practices that have sprung up in recent years.
I thought I had a job interview today. Turned up right place, right time, couldn’t get into the office because the entryphone either didn’t work or was being ignored and only got in at all because someone else was coming out. Then I was handed a form to fill in – which I’d half expected – but when that was done I was sent away without seeing anyone! Apparently they’ll be in touch, but why couldn’t they just email the form out in the first place? Why did I have to waste an afternoon and half a gallon of petrol just to fill out a form? Because lousy bosses like these know they have the upper hand.
Until there’s a true living wage factoring in hours, pay, AND job security for everyone, while also being real inflation adjusted, there’s no such thing.