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Life on the ‘living wage’
Work simply does not pay for too many millions of workers on insecure and low-paid contracts, says MARTIN SMITH
THIS November sees the latest in a series of “living wage” weeks where the charities, academics and financial institutions behind the Living Wage Foundation reveal to a waiting world their opinion on what we can live on in 2015.
In June the new Chancellor gave us his opinion of the wage he thinks we should live on when he cut tax credits by up to £24 per week from next April for the working poor to be paid for by the new “national living wage.” This idea has been passed into law this week.
GMB launched a Life on the Living Wage survey of its members earlier this year. We wanted to know more about the stories behind the competing “living wage” rates.
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