Minimum Wage
Pity the fool
Wednesday April 1st will likely have been circled on the calendars of hospitality sector leaders since the very start of the year
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THE NATIONAL minimum wage for those over the age of 21 has just gone up from £6.50 to £6.70. Apparently, 74% of businesses didn’t realise. Apprentices also got their biggest ever pay rise this month – up 57p to £3.30 an…
News review
EU majority bans GM England is set to be surrounded by GM-free zones, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all having requested opt-outs from cultivation of GM crops. In all, 19 member states have informed the European Commission that they…
Living wage hits foodservice hardest
THE NATIONAL Living Wage will add 3.6% to the wage bill of the foodservice sector by 2020. For hotels and accommodation the impact is 2.8%. Combined, this…
Green Party call for £10 minimum wage
THE GREEN Party has called for the statutory minimum wage to be raised to living wage levels immediately and for a £10 per hour minimum wage for all by 2020. At the Party’s recent autumn conference in Birmingham, party leader…
