Launched in 2012, the Brighton & Hove Living Wage Campaign aims to encourage local businesses to voluntarily pay all employees a decent hourly rate.
Set independently and updated annually the Living Wage is calculated according to the basic cost of living in the UK and is the amount that allows a person to live, rather than just survive. The new rate is announced every November during Living Wage week and businesses are given until 1st April to implement the new rate which is currently £8.75 per hour
Our aim is to support and encourage local businesses to voluntarily commit to paying their employees the Living Wage. If you are already paying the Living Wage you can sign up here to show your business’ commitment and then display a Brighton & Hove Living Wage logo on your premises, marketing materials and website. See here who has signed up already.
If you are not paying the Living Wage but would like to join the 416 businesses that currently do, please contact us here for advice and support.
"Grace Eyre are proud to have signed up to the Living Wage Campaign. It is important that our employees feel that their salaries are competitive and that they can realistically support themselves with their standard of living. Ensuring that we meet the living wage can help support the rising cost of living and as an…
Paying the Living Wage is a tangible way to let our employees know how much we value them and the work they do. If everyone in the City of Brighton & Hove was paid the Living Wage, we would see a stronger and fairer city, hence we support the campaign.
We support Living Wage because we believe it is important that people are paid a fair and just wage that will allow them to live a reasonably comfortable life. We also believe that if you value your staff with good wages they will become the strongest asset of your business.
"At the Carers Centre for Brighton & Hove our commitment to the living wage is one sign of how much we value the dedication, skill and hard work of our staff who do the vital job of advising and supporting the city's carers."
"The STAGES team should be paid their worth. It’s the right thing to do. They are an amazing group of people and without them STAGES would not be able to deliver the quality customer care, on which the company bases its ethics and business model."
