{"id":17735,"date":"2019-04-01T16:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17735"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:53","slug":"national-minimum-wage-rise-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17735","title":{"rendered":"‘Raw deal’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unions have warned that the slight increase in wages nearly 2m workers will see from today (April 1) are not enough to end poverty pay.<\/p>\n

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Hourly rates for adult workers aged over 24 will rise from \u00c2\u01417.83 to \u00c2\u01418.21, those aged between 21-to-24 will see their pay go from \u00c2\u01417.38 to \u00c2\u01417.70, while wages for 18-to-20 year olds will go from \u00c2\u01415.90 an hour to \u00c2\u01416.15.<\/p>\n

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The staggering the minimum wage according to age means young people are being paid \u00c2\u0141200m a year less than older workers, a study<\/a> released by the TUC to coincide with the rise found.<\/p>\n

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TUC<\/a> general secretary Frances O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Grady called for equal pay for all age groups receiving the minimum wage.<\/p>\n

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She said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bYoung workers are still getting a raw deal on pay. Their bills aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t any cheaper, but they have to make ends meet with less.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Despite government crowing that the increase delivers on their commitment that \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUK workers get a fair day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pay\u00e2\u20ac\u0165, TUC senior economist Geoff Tily explained that only the richer are getting richer under the Tories.<\/p>\n

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He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bOnly (four) industries have pay above the pre-crisis position, and only just. Echoing the most severe pay crisis for two centuries, real pay in the 15 other industry groupings is still well below pre-crisis level. Excluding finance and insurance, industry pay declined by approximately 3 per cent over the decade.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner referred to a Unite study<\/a> that shows raising the minimum wage to \u00c2\u014110 per hour for workers aged 18 and over would help end pay misery and boost public finances by an estimated \u00c2\u01415.6bn a year.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIncreasing the minimum wage<\/a> and national living wage to \u00c2\u014110 per hour would be a huge boost for young workers and help end poverty pay rates that hospitality workers have to endure,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Turner said.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt would be a virtuous circle helping ease the squeeze on incomes, while increasing the public finances through greater tax revenues and reduced spending on in-work benefits.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bA \u00c2\u014110 per hour minimum wage would mean extra money in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pockets which would be spent in communities and on high streets across the UK. It would help breathe life into a flagging economy and make work pay.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Unions have warned that the slight increase in wages nearly 2m workers will see from today (April 1) are not enough to end poverty pay.   Hourly rates for adult workers aged over 24 will rise from \u00c2\u01417.83 to \u00c2\u01418.21, those aged between 21-to-24 will see their pay go from \u00c2\u01417.38 to \u00c2\u01417.70, while wages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"National minimum wage rise not enough to end poverty pay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25391,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17735\/revisions\/25391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}