Minimum wage

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• Britain’s wage crisis can’t go on

  10 Sep 2014: James Charles: If pay had continued to rise at pre-2008 levels, the average Briton would be £5,000 better off today. To repair the damage, the minimum wage has to rise

• Green party to call for £10 minimum wage for all by 2020

  4 Sep 2014:

  Party leader Natalie Bennett will argue minimum wage of £6.31 should be immediately raised to living wage level

• Low-paid Britain: 'People have had enough. It's soul destroying'

  30 Aug 2014:

  Yes, they have jobs … but the five people featured here are typical of millions who have no security, no holiday or sick pay, limited hours, and no dignity at work, writes Yvonne Roberts

• Two Days, One Night – a film that illuminates the despair of the low paid

  30 Aug 2014:

  Nick Cohen: Millions are taking jobs no rational person looking to maintain a family or build a career would normally consider

• Private firms 'are using detained immigrants as cheap labour'

  22 Aug 2014: G4S and Serco saving millions by paying detainees as little as £1 an hour to cook and clean, claim campaigners

• Care workers take Hampshire home employers to tribunal over pay and working hours

  17 Aug 2014: Zero-hours staff say they were paid by minutes spent with clients at below the minimum wage

• The race to the bottom on wages

  17 Aug 2014: Letters: Growth will be at risk as long as the UK fails to evolve into a high-skill, high-wage economy

• The new breed of shareholder activist: taking on the big boys at the AGM

  1 Aug 2014: Zoe Williams: It’s a David and Goliath struggle: buying a single share and turning up at corporate AGMs to grill bosses over low pay, inflated bonuses and business ethics. They may not get straight answers, but there’s a victory in just asking the questions

• Bank of England will delay interest rate rise if wages don't go up

  23 Jul 2014: Larry Elliott: Growth is stronger and unemployment lower than expected but earnings fail to increase as Bank struggles to explain situation

• London living wage: which Whitehall departments pay cleaners the least?

  Guardian Professional, 22 Jul 2014:

  A new league table from Citizens UK highlights the best and worst Whitehall departments for providing the living wage

• Labour reaches new deal for overhaul of 'failed' railways

  19 Jul 2014: Ed Miliband outlines plan to reverse privatisation that puts reform at heart of election manifesto

• UK wages can't rise unless we solve the productivity puzzle

  15 Jul 2014: Ian Brinkley: The overall picture is that huge swaths of the manufacturing and service sectors have experienced several years of falling productivity

• EU migrants 'not hitting UK school-leavers' job prospects'

  8 Jul 2014:

  Official migration advisory committee does warn that further EU expansion could have a greater effect on low-paid workers

• Lib Dem MP John Leech faces HMRC investigation over unpaid internships

  5 Jul 2014: MP for Manchester Withington criticised for advertising for 'interns' but not offering minimum wage

• Many British people will never afford an acceptable minimum living standard

  1 Jul 2014: Patrick Butler: The chances of people on low incomes affording a decent life, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, have dramatically reduced

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