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Living wage

January 2023

  • Riverford Farm organic vegetable box for home delivery.

    Vegetable box firm Riverford doubles payout to founder despite profits plunge

    Appetite for organic food continues from Covid boom but firm warns inflation and rising costs are eating into profits
  • The interior of Aldi's Bolton distribution centre

    Aldi increases pay for UK warehouse workers for third time in a year

    Supermarket’s rise to £13.18 on 1 February puts its hourly minimum rate 20% ahead of January 2022
  • A Sainsbury’s employee arranges produce inside a supermarket in Richmond, west London.

    Sainsbury’s to pay at least £11 an hour for 127,000 lowest-paid workers

    Third pay increase in year gives staff 7.3% rise amid fierce competition to retain and recruit employees

November 2022

  • Dominique Edwards, a local teacher, at a protest about low pay outside a care home in Haringey.

    Campaigners demand action as London workers struggle for real living wage

    Outer borough of Haringey tops UK league for low-paid jobs relative to local cost of living

October 2022

  • Srichand Hinduja, left, and Gopichand Hinduja, who were named as the wealthiest people in Britain.

    UK richest family accused of ‘playing Scrooge’ over below real living wage workers’ pay

    Exclusive: Company owned by Hinduja family refuses to offer workers inflation-matching pay rise

September 2022

  • A Burberry store Manchester. The fashion brand is among more than 11,000 employers signed up to pay the living wage.

    Real living wage to rise by record 10.1% to £10.90 an hour outside London

  • Anonymous user of a Rotherham food bank holds two bags full of items

    Britain’s lowest-paid workers say finances have never been worse

August 2022

  • Labour Party leader Keir Starmer

    The Guardian view on raising the minimum wage: winning the fight for £15 an hour

    Editorial: Britain may be as close now to a general strike as it has ever been. To resolve industrial tensions means thinking big
  • A family receiving advice at Epsom Foodbank in Surrey

    Work doesn’t pay. Labour will fix that

    Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves
    Squeezed pay has forced too many working people to use food banks, say Labour frontbenchers Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves

    • Aldi to give UK warehouse workers second pay rise in a year

    • Amey bosses celebrated profits while offering below-inflation pay rises

    • Cost of living crisis: protests to launch across the UK

July 2022

  • (Left-right) Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party.

    The Guardian view on Tory economics: for haves, not for have-nots

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    The sterling rally could be brief, just like Boris Johnson’s premiership

    Nils Pratley
  • Security guards and staff members outnumber shoppers outside Harringay Sainsburys during the "Black Friday" sale, in north London on Friday, November 27, 2015. Photograph: © Frantzesco Kangaris

    Living wage campaigners claim progress after vote at Sainsbury’s AGM

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Singling out Sainsbury’s over the living wage may not be that pragmatic

    Nils Pratley

June 2022

  • Services such as leisure centres, libraries and road repairs may need to be cut.

    Inflation could push English councils into bankruptcy, say leaders

  • Sainsbury's trolleys

    Sainsbury’s under new pressure to pay living wage for all workers

May 2022

  • Ikea store exterior

    Who pays the ‘real living wage’ in Britain – and who does not?

  • Simon Wolfson, chief executive officer of Next

    Executive pay system is broken, says Church of England’s pension board

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