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 £9.00 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 545 businesses that currently do, please contact us here for advice and support.
It's a good idea and we support it.
At Sole Sister we firmly believe in paying people for the job that they do to provide the service that we pride ourselves on. We believe that All employees should be paid enough to enable a good standard of living.
All our staff are paid in excess of the living wage, this enables them to improve the performance of the company which in turn gives back to the local economy, this is borne out by the fact that over 50% of our staff have been with the company in excess if 5 years
Due to the nature of our business we already pay above the living wage. We have signed up to show our support for this great campaign.
"At Survivors’ Network our staff provide invaluable support to people at their most vulnerable. It is absolutely essential that we recognise this and paying a living wage is the least that we can do."
