National Living Wage increase not enough for frontline workers Published:
01 Apr 2021 The National Living Wage has increased to £8.91 per hour from £8.72 today, but workers unions think more still needs to be done to stop employees from being underpaid for their work.
During the spending review last November, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the 2.2% increase will likely benefit around two million people.
A full-time worker on National Living Wage (NLW) will now earn £345 more each year, however the increase is less than that recommended to the UK government by The Low Pay Commission, which proposed the NLW should rise from £8.72 to £9.21 per hour before the pandemic hit.
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About two million of the UK s lowest-paid workers will get a pay rise from Thursday as the minimum wage goes up.
The National Living Wage will rise 2.2% to £8.91, the equivalent of more than £345 a year for a full-time employee.
It will also be given to 23 and 24-year-olds for the first time, not just those aged 25 and over.
Statutory rates for apprentices and those aged between 18 and 22 will also rise, along with the voluntary Real Living Wage .
However, hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers on furlough will see no uplift at all after they were excluded.
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image captionKen Wright, co-owner of the Phoenix Arts Club, is worried about the future of his business
About two million of the UK s lowest-paid workers will get a pay rise from Thursday as the minimum wage goes up.
The headline National Living Wage will rise by 2.2% to £8.91, the equivalent of more than £345 a year for a full-time employee.
But Ken Wright, co-owner of the Phoenix Arts Club in Soho, is wringing his hands in despair over how he will afford the pay rise during a pandemic. What we ve been asked to do is more, with less, he told the BBC.