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17 Jul 2023 | Edmund Heery, David Nash, Deborah Hann

Twenty years of the Living Wage - The Employer Experience

Report summary

To mark 10 years of Living Wage Employer accreditation, we joined up with Cardiff Business School…

31 Mar 2023 | Sakinah Abdul Aziz, Joe Richardson

London's Low Pay Landscape

Living costs in London are some of the highest in the world. As such, the experience of low pay in London is often even more challenging than in other parts of the UK. For most of the last decade…

13 Nov 2022 | Sakinah Abdul Aziz and Joe Richardson

EMPLOYEE JOBS BELOW THE REAL LIVING WAGE 2022

This is the eleventh annual update to the 'employee jobs paid below the Living Wage' report, which uses data from the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings (…

07 Nov 2022 | Sakinah Abdul Aziz and Joe Richardson

THE LIVING HOURS INDEX 2: EXPLORING THE ETHNICITY HOURS GAP

The UK is facing the worst cost-of-living-crisis in almost half a century, and no one is feeling the squeeze more than the nation’s 4.8m workers paid less than the real Living Wage. Earning a wage…

22 Sep 2022 | Nye Cominetti & Louise Murphy

CALCULATING THE REAL LIVING WAGE 2022

This report sets out the method through which the Living Wage rates in London and the rest of the UK are calculated by the Resolution Foundation and overseen by the Living Wage Commission on…

16 Sep 2022 |

LIFE ON LOW PAY DURING A COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS

With sky-high inflation becoming increasingly commonplace, the UK is facing the worst cost-of-living crisis in half a century.

The crisis shows few signs of slowing any time soon, with…

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