The Living Wage Foundation

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A living wage means every worker in the country will earn enough to provide their family with the essentials of life.

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What is the living wage?

A number. An hourly rate, set independently, every year (by the GLA in London).

Pay all your people the living wage, and you’ll know that you’re rewarding them fairly for the hard work they do. Between them, the employers in London who committed to paying a living wage lifted 3,500 families out of poverty last year.

Why it’s important

For individuals, it’s an incentive to work, and a vital way out of hardship for their families.

For employers, it makes business sense. It increases loyalty and productivity. And it’s a sign that you respect everyone who makes your organisation work (even those you don’t employ directly), and value the work they do.

And it’s important for a society facing tough financial times. With work comes dignity, responsibility, stability, hope.

That’s why the Prime Minister says it’s ‘an idea whose time has come’. Key members of the Opposition are behind it, too. And big business, universities, charities, and other organisations are signing up.

What does the Living Wage Foundation do?

The Living Wage Foundation does three things:

1.     Help. If you want to find out about why you should bring in the living wage, or how to do it, we’re the place to go.

2.     Accredit. We award the Living Wage employer mark to show the world who’s signed up: businesses, governmental bodies, boroughs, schools, even shopping centres.

3.     Campaign. So that we convince even more people: business leaders, politicians, journalists, potential partners. We want everyone to know the benefits of a living wage.