The government will lay the legislation before parliament today to bring in the 6.7% increase in the National Living Wage announced in the budget.
The move will see over 3 million of the lowest people get a pay rise from April.
The move will see over 3 million of the lowest people get a pay rise from April.
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Though if we continue to see rises on this scale across the Parliament, this would see it exceed £15 an hour, which is what your Green Party promised. And from what I can make out that promise was for the parliament...so we are on course for having what the Greens promised.
'Jobs will be lost, govt source said....'
She wrote an article about some abuse he got and he took a dislike to the headline...so made a big deal to link to her account.
She probably didn't even write the headline and he knew that!
I'm amazed Starmer keeps going against all this negativity.
Negatives are front page news, but absolute tumbleweed when it comes to good news.
workaday-middle-management doing-the-boring-work-of grown-up government approach.
Missing that we, and the economy, need a little bit of upbeat oomph
The 6.7% increase Labour has introduced this year, if repeated across the Parliament, would see it exceed £15 by the end of the parliament.
So not that much different to the Green promise.
‘More money for the rich’ I say. Less tax on private jets & remove VAT on those stupid taps that think they are a kettle.
Labour. Bastards.
Increasing their pay would move many over those thresholds for receiving this extra help, cutting the welfare budget, and in most cases not impacting their overall financial situation.