What if I work in shared building and some workers are employed by the building management company?

All directly employed staff, regardless of time spent at work, as well as regularly contracted staff who work for 2 hours a week, for 8 or more consecutive weeks of the year must be paid the Living Wage.

You may have cleaners that work on your premises, that are shared with other tenants. This first step is to find out from your building management company whether the cleaners are paid the LW.

If they are not then the ideal outcome would be to persuade your building management to pay all cleaners, security and reception staff the LW. You might want to organise a meeting of tenants in the building and raise the issue of the LW with this group. If you can get support from a group of tenants and then approach the building manager together you will have a more powerful case for persuasion.

If it is not possible to persuade other tenants and the building manager to work with you on the Living Wage then you can request to pay the staff the Living Wage rate for the time they are providing a service on your premises. As you are a paying client the building manager should be willing to provide you with a service agreement on the terms you require.