Sentences with phrase «living wage employers»

The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto recognised the need to support vocational education and invest in apprenticeships, as well as calling for public sector organisations becoming living wage employers.

Welsh Liberal Democrats have also promoted the civic role of educational institutions, encouraging all Universities in Wales to become Living Wage employers.

Welsh Liberal Democrats have been consistent in promoting the civic role of educational institutions, including successfully challenging all universities in Wales to become living wage employers.

Secondly, we should seek to learn from the local government experience with procurement to see whether central government can use its power to insist that large firms that get major government contracts commit to being living wage employers.

I am proud to say that since then, Islington and Lewisham have been joined by Labour councils in Birmingham, Hounslow, Lambeth, Camden, Oxford, Preston, Southwark and Hackney, all living wage employers.

It is striking that while 19 Labour councils are already living wage employers, not a single Conservative council is yet accredited.

Alongside this, we are also proud to be a Living Wage employer and offer sabbaticals for our crew as well as sharing 10 % of the annual profits of our company between everyone who made it happen.

teapigs are super proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer.

Steve Rotheram added: «As mayor of the Liverpool city region, I am delighted that Liverpool Football Club has taken this step and is now committed to becoming a Real Living Wage Employer.

Our proud and continued commitment as a Living Wage employer means the club raises our minimum rate of pay during Living Wage Week...

Over the last 12 months Labour has increased the number of local authorities with living wage employer status from two to eight, while also adding Birmingham, Oxford and Preston.

This is why pay matters and it's why JRF and JRHT took the decision to become a Living Wage employer and we're proud to have received our accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation.

The SQA is a Living Wage Employer and is now being asked if its current payment system adheres to the wage guarantee policy.

Under Tamara's direction, Vancity achieved the highest profits in the organization's 70 - year history and became the first Canadian financial institution (FI) invited to the Global Alliance for Banking on Values; the first carbon - neutral FI in North America; the largest Canadian private - sector living wage employer, and one of the first to create an alternative product to high - interest payday loans.

Hoyes, Michalos & Associates Inc. has, effective today, has become an accredited Living Wage employer.

Hoyes Michalos signed a Living Wage Employer Declaration as a Champion level employer with Living Wage Waterloo Region on March 8, 2017.

SSE is a UK Living Wage employer, and Fair Tax Mark business, and it started offering broadband in 2015.

Not exact matches

«The living wage can be achieved by employers paying more wages or by policy interventions that reduce expenses for people,» he said, adding a community child care plan similar to Quebec's could help further reduce the living wage by $ 3.22 an hour, making it more affordable for employers.

Employer demands for a two - tier wage system is a fact of life in the present economy, condemning younger workers to a permanent low - wage existence.

«Though we already pay # 11 billion a year to subsidise a low - wage economy because employers are not paying people enough to live on, volunteers up and down the country are providing a further # 30 million a year in «free» labour to ensure that our fellow citizens in low paid work, on zero hour contracts, or relying on a broken benefits system have enough to eat.

But not everyone is capable of contributing the value of a «living wage» to an employer.

The insufficiency of work to provide self - sufficiency is behind the movement — backed by many religious groups — to ensure that all employers pay a living wage, which is generally understood to be the wage needed to support a family at or slightly above the poverty level.

Employers can honor the commandment to honor the Sabbath in the workplace as well as offer their adult employees a living wage.

The idea of «living wage» became much more important in America, where labor was usually in demand and therefore able to command a higher price and to set other limits and conditions governing employers» access to it.

The mission of the Durham Living Wage Project is to support worker livelihoods by urging employers to pay living wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commLiving Wage Project is to support worker livelihoods by urging employers to pay living wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commliving wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commliving wages as a matter of conscience within our community.

When you work for the second largest employer in the world, one which makes profits in the tens of billions, you expect to be able to receive a wage that enables you to live.

So a real living wage requires employers to make good on any cuts in state support.

The All Progressives Congress lawmaker from Lagos State told his colleagues that aside ensuring that workers were paid a living wage, the bill would address the frequent protests over poor wages and the unwillingness of employers, particularly the government, to raise wages.

What we want to make sure is that we raise the minimum wage and we've got a radical plan to do it, that doesn't cost jobs, so in addition to raising the minimum wage we've got a plan to provide tax breaks for employers for the first time, to raise the living wage.

Anyone who thinks they are not getting the National Living Wage or National Minimum Wage should complain to their employer in the first instance.

Take, for example, the living wage campaign; if you force an employer to pay a living wage then a government would not have to worry about improving in work poverty through tax credits.

Those not lucky enough to have employers who recognise the living wage will find themselves out of pocket.

Between 30 and 40 people turned out Wednesday at City Hall in a cold drizzle to lobby in support of a countywide living wage of $ 14.34 an hour for a worker whose employer does not offer health benefits.

Not only do we need to see more employers committing to pay the Living Wage, we also need to tackle the thorny question of why it is the UK has so many bad jobs in the first place.

And we will introduce mandatory registration of commercial landlords, so that nobody is forced to live in substandard accommodation and no employer / landlord can circumvent the minimum wage.

«The government's new National Living Wage is a step up for working people, so it is important workers know their rights and that employers pay the new # 7.20 from 1 April this year.

He said the motivation for employers to pay the higher London living wage of # 9.15 an hour could have been removed by the chancellor's intervention.

A Labour government will mean more workers paid a living wage, (as many enlightened employers and, I'm proud to say, increasing numbers of Labour councils, are already doing)- offering temporary tax breaks to employers that commit to paying it, and requiring transparency of large companies, so employees, consumers and campaigners can hold them to account.

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

Shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said Mr Osborne should introduce tax breaks for employers that pay the living wage as a way of boosting people's incomes and warned against underestimating the importance of tax credits to families.

«Our employers for the most part recognize that the cost of living in New York justifies a higher minimum wage, but we'd like to see it consistent across the state.»

What these workers have in common — besides earning wages that make it impossible to support a family without relying on public assistance — is that they all work for employers who can easily afford to pay their workers a living wage.

While Hutchings is still around, many of the other large employers that provided a living wage to generations of Syracuse residents have moved on.

The first, a survey of employers of wage and salary jobs, measures the number of people working in DC regardless of where they live.

From independent small fishermen and farmers they became wage labourers working for a triumvirate of ruling families in a succession of new industries - logwood, chicle, coconut - their lives transformed into a grinding monotony, guided only by their employers» need to accumulate more wealth.

Frank, honest and heartfelt — the pictures and accompanying words set out to highlight the charity's UK Poverty campaign, which aims to call on the government to encourage more employers to pay the living wage, strengthen the new Universal Credit welfare system and help parents afford to work by providing extra child care support.

Employers complain about the new higher minimum wage (the so - called «living wage»); the «apprenticeship levy» (a payroll tax for large companies); restrictions on skilled migrant workers; and the requirement for large companies to publish their gender pay gaps.

This special minimum wage rule is inconsistent with the federal Caregiver Program policies that prohibit employers from charging room and board to live - in caregivers.

Where an older employee is dismissed to avoid paying the National Living Wage, an employer may also face a claim for unfair dismissal.

We would remind employers that if an older employee is dismissed or an older applicant is treated less favourably in order to avoid the payment of the National Living Wage, an employer could be faced with a claim for age discrimination unless they are able to justify their actions.