Plymouth City Council is asking academies and non-maintained schools to follow its example by ensuring all employees are paid a living wage.
The Council has committed that all staff in Council maintained schools will be paid a minimum hourly rate that ensures they have enough to meet the basic cost of living.
The commitment to pay a living wage set nationally particularly helps...
Some council workers in Plymouth could getting up to a 20% pay rise this year following a living wage agreement yesterday (22/07/2013).
Plymouth City Council debated a proposal to introduce a living wage pay rate for some of its lowest paid staff as part of the manifesto promises of the council’s Labour group majority.
The council has already set aside cash for the pay rise,...
Making home energy bills cheaper and increasing wages to the cost of living are just two of the ways Plymouth will tackle child poverty in a hard-hitting city-wide action plan.
Cabinet has agreed a three year strategy and action plan to reduce child poverty and mitigate its effects - pledge number 21 of its 100 promises made in May 2012.
Half of all women working in the South West earn less than the Living Wage, according to new research by Fair Play South West.
The gender equality organisation supported by Equality South West has analysed provisional data from the Office of National Statistics Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, and learned that while just 19% of men in the South West earn less than £7.45 per hour,...
