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Let’s celebrate: Living Wage Week dates for 2023 Announced

Mark your calendars! Living Wage Week 2023, is taking place November 6th to 12th. Living Wage Week is the annual celebration of the Living Wage movement. Our movement has never been more important than against the backdrop of spiralling prices and a cost of living crisis, so we want to celebrate the employers and individuals […]

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Rhondda Cynon Taf County Council is now a Living Wage employer.

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is now an accredited Living Wage Employer. They are now the third County Council in Wales to be awarded the Living Wage employer accreditation. Their commitment to the Living Wage will see no one working at the council paid below the current minimum real Living Wage hourly rate of £10.90, this

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Celebrating 500 REAL LIVING WAGE EMPLOYERS ACROSS WALES AFTER BEST-EVER MONTH

Living Wage Wales celebrates milestone 500th accredited Living Wage employers after a very successful June. Living Wage Wales celebrated reaching the milestone of 500 accredited real Living Wage employers across Wales, alongside Urdd Gobaith Cymru, the 500th organisation to accredit. Staff at Urdd Gobaith Cymru and Living Wage Wales met with Welsh Government Deputy Minister

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Shaw Healthcare – an employee-owned healthcare business

This Living Wage Week we are celebrating accredited employers based in Wales. A significant accreditation this year has been Shaw Healthcare, an employee owned healthcare business based in Cardiff, following a multi-million-pound investment into employee salaries. From 1 March 2022, everyone at Shaw saw an increase in their salaries of between three and 10 per

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Wales focus – Social Care and Local Authority Living Wage accreditations

July 2021 – This short report by Cardiff University examines the current position of social care accreditations in Wales, with UK evidence included as a reference point. It also looks at the characteristics of accredited organisations in social care and the pattern of Living Wage accreditation across Welsh Local Authorities.

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