The Living Wage

27 Oct 2016 | by Lancaster Local Meeting’s Living Wage Campaign Group

Friends in Lancaster believe a Living Wage should pay enough to live on

Quaker Living Wage Campaign logo. | Photo: Friends in Lancaster.

Living Wage Week is between Sunday 30 October and Saturday 5 November. This is not George Osborne’s National Living Wage, which is just a hike up of the minimum wage, but an hourly rate of pay set by the Living Wage Foundation, based on calculations made by The Centre for Research in Social Policy at the Loughborough University. They have calculated what would constitute a wage that would give people enough to live on. In 2015/16 this has been £8.25 per hour outside London and £9.40 in London. The new rate will be announced by the Foundation this week.

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