Living Wage

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

Case studies, Employer story, Uncategorised / By Alys Reid Bacon

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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cynnal Cymru welcomes new staff members

News / By Abi Hoare

In the last month, Cynnal Cymru has welcomed two new employees to support our growing work programme. Our team of 12 sustainability specialists work to support organisations across three core programme areas: (i) low carbon economy, (ii) natural environment and (iii) fair and just society. To take forward the real Living Wage in Wales and support Welsh

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LIVING WAGE MILESTONE: 10,000 EMPLOYERS PAYING THE REAL LIVING WAGE TO SUPPORT STAFF WITH COST OF LIVING

News / By Abi Hoare

Over 10,000 UK employers are now accredited with the Living Wage Foundation, nearly half (over 4,500) of whom have signed up since March 2020 Latest names to sign up include organisations like the Royal Albert Hall and the Fed; New research shows the Living Wage campaign has put over £1.8 billion in extra wages in the pockets of low paid

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Little actions can make a big collective difference

Living Wage City, News / By Abi Hoare

St David’s last words were ‘do the little things’, the well-known maxim in Wales. This St David’s Day, employers across the Capital are being asked to think about the things they can do to join over 160 organisations in making Cardiff a Living Wage City.

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Making cardiff a living wage city Digital assets – st david’s day

Digital pack / By Abi Hoare

With St David’s Day next week, we thought it was a good opportunity to embrace a maxim associated with St David – ‘Do the little things’ as even small steps towards becoming an accredited Living Wage employer will make a big collective difference. Below are downloadable digital comms packs, which employers are free to share

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