
We Need a Liveable Wage
One in six UK jobs paid below the real Living Wage in 2024 — 800,000 more than the previous year. The workers who keep society running shouldn’t be fighting to make ends meet.
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Katherine Chapman is the Director of the Living Wage Foundation.
One in six UK jobs paid below the real Living Wage in 2024 — 800,000 more than the previous year. The workers who keep society running shouldn’t be fighting to make ends meet.
Twenty years after the national minimum wage was introduced, it’s time to fight for a wage that people could really live on.