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| Joe Richardson & Lydia Reddyhof

A LIVING WAGE MATTERS:THE ROLE OF THE LIVING WAGE IN CLOSING ETHNICITY PAY GAPS

The pandemic painfully revealed the racialised imbalances in the UK, with minority ethnic workers disproportionately exposed to the health and economic risks posed by Covid-19. This includes…

| Nye Cominetti & Felicia Odamtten

LIVING PENSIONS: AN ASSESSMENT OF WHETHER WORKERS' PENSION SAVING MEETS A 'LIVING PENSION' BENCHMARK

This report, commissioned by the Living Wage Foundation and completed by Resolution Foundation, assess workers’ actual rates of pension saving against set of benchmarks for the rate of pension…

| Yasmin Mahmoudi, Alice Ollendorff and Joe Richardson

All work and low pay? The third sector and the real Living Wage

As previous Living Wage Foundation research has shown, below Living Wage pay is a significant issue in the third sector. While the sector dedicates a large amount of resources to the root causes…

| Joe Richardson

The Living Hours Index

The Living Hours Index provides an important new perspective on insecure work, building on previous research by the Living Wage Foundation and others on the scale and impact of insecure and…

| Joe Richardson

Life On Low Pay 2022

During a period of unprecedented rises to the cost of living. Polling of 1,702 employees in the UK earning less than the real Living Wage in January 2022 highlights the impacts of low pay on this…

| Joe Richardson

Employee Jobs Paid Below The Living Wage 2021

This is the tenth annual update on employee jobs paid below the Living Wage and the second produced by Living Wage Foundation.This report has been produced by the Living Wage Foundation, using…

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