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 £9.30 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 604 businesses that currently do, please contact us here for advice and support.
We feel it is very important for all employers to ensure their staff are paid a fair, living wage for all employment, whether full or part time. We appreciate that Brighton and Hove is an expensive part of the UK to live in, with one of the highest house price-to- earnings ratios in the UK,…
We have always voluntarily paid the Living wage but we have chosen to support the Living Wage Campaign as a demonstration to other businesses and encourage others to become part of the project. It is important to raise the profile of the campaign and in doing so support the wider community.
We believe that paying people a living wage is the right thing to do. A fair pay for all, in return for a fair contribution of labour, with a fair distribution of the profits generated. It takes good people to make a great company!
We're tremendously lucky that so many people want to donate their time to us as volunteers, but that doesn't make us lose sight of the value of people's time. One of the things we're here to do as a charity is promote equality, so we're very happy to sign up to the campaign to show…
"At CrowCreation we support the Living Wage because we don't want our employees worrying about paying for their lunch when they should be worrying about changing the world ;-)"
