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Coffee shop boss scraps tipping and increases staff pay from £6 to £14 an hour
Nick Price thinks tipping has got out of hand in the US - and so do his coffee shop customers. He has now taken on a new business strategy, which he says is better both for customers and his employees
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Inflation-busting pay rise announced for 460,000 low-paid workers - see rates
The Living Wage Foundation today releases its annual rates - and the inflation-busting hike will help boost the budgets of hundreds of thousands struggling in the cost of living crisis
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Foodbank heartache as two in five lowest-paid workers forced to rely on handouts
Grim research shows how 39% of people earning less than the Real Living Wage of £10.90 an hour turned to foodbanks in the past month amid the cost-of-living crisis
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Walmart boosts pay for 7,000 staff with some getting as high as $140,000 a year
Supermarket chain Walmart is handing a pay increase to 3,700 pharmacists, not including bonusses and incentives, from Wednesday. 4,000 opticians are also set to see their wage increased
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£15-an-hour wage for carers would deliver £7.7bn economic boost - see your area
Workers' leaders today demand a pay hike for carers in a move aimed at filling the 165,000 vacancies blighting the sector and easing gender and race pay gaps
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Voters demand pay boost for struggling carers to make them equal with NHS staff
A petition calls on the Government to place care workers on Band 3 of the NHS's national pay scheme - giving carers a much-needed salary hike
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Millions of workers to take home more cash as new law on tipping passes
The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 received Royal Assent yesterday makes it unlawful for businesses to hold back service charges from their employees
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Bid to boost social carers' pay and ease chronic crisis clears first stage
A Labour backbencher's Bill to enforce rules around carers being paid for travel time has passed its first Commons hurdle - and is due to back in front of MPs in six months
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Difference between minimum pay and Real Living Wage 'worth 14 weeks of food'
The analysis comes from the Living Wage Foundation as the Government's legal pay floor rises on Saturday - sparking calls for companies to go even further if they can afford to
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Dates DWP payments will change in April including Universal Credit
As confirmed in the Chancellor's Autumn statement last year, benefits, payments and the state pension will rise by 10.1% from April
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Most pension savers fear they will never be able to even retire, poll shows
The study comes as the Living Pension scheme is launched by the fair pay campaigners behind the Real Living Wage crusade
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Boost for 45,000 workers as firms sign up to 'Living Hours' pledge
The scheme, devised by the Living Wage Foundation, aims to provide staff with a guaranteed minimum number of hours each week - and "decent" notice of cancellations
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Thousands of Brits urged to live in city where pay is three times more than UK
A team of Australians on the hunt to fill 31,000 job vacancies are heading for British soil in a bid to lure over skilled workers to Perth - where it's said you could earn up to three times as much
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'NHS workers are achieving the impossible and it makes me feel ashamed'
Polly Hudson is so grateful to NHS staff who cared for a loved one in hospital, and she wants to share the incredible, undervalued work going on behind the scenes
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Paying carers Real Living Wage could help ease NHS crisis, say campaigners
The Living Wage Foundation believes lifting the pay of tens of thousands of care workers could encourage more staff into the sector, relieving pressure on the health service