'Really pleasing' for council to commit to paying Real Living Wage
A GWENT council’s leadership has committed to being accredited as a Real Living Wage employer.
Monmouthshire County Council has already been paying the voluntary enhanced rate to its lowest paid staff sine 2015.
It is set by the Living Wage Foundation and intended to reflect the cost of living and what workers require to achieve a “decent standard of living” and is currently £12.60 which is 39 pence more an hour than the legal minimum National Living Wage for workers aged 21 and over.
The council’s Labour/Green Party cabinet has........
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