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With 2020 coming to an end, there is plenty to reflect on and be proud of at the Brighton & Hove Living Wage Campaign. We have achieved a lot this year and want to thank everyone for helping us campaign for a fairer Living Wage.
Last month was Living Wage Week, a national celebration of the Living Wage movement. In Brighton & Hove, we have made amazing progress with the local Living Wage campaign, with over 780 businesses signed up since it started in 2012. The new Living Wage rate for 2020/21 was announced as £9.50 an hour.
In the lead-up to Living Wage Week, we asked businesses that have signed up to the campaign to fill in a survey about their experiences. 54 businesses responded to our survey.
The findings were overwhelmingly positive with 74% of businesses that said the Living Wage had a positive impact on their staff and 85% saying that it was important for business.
Paying the Living Wage is an opportunity for local businesses to help support fair pay, show they value their staff, and also inspire local businesses in other areas to follow in their footsteps. It can be a powerful statement of Brighton & Hove values. Living Wage employers tell us that this has benefits for the business as well, with lower recruitment costs and higher productivity, and was beneficial for their public relations.
Of the businesses surveyed:
If your business hasn’t yet signed up to the Living Wage campaign, we’d love to have you on board.
You can help by sharing our survey results on social media @BHLivingWage and @BrightonLivingWage.
And get in touch if you would like to write a blog about your experience as a Living Wage employer.
Contact us by emailing campaigns@brightonchamber.co.uk.
Put simply: Because it is the right thing to do. We value our team. We want to support this campaign and encourage every employer, whatever the sector, to commit to paying all employees the Living Wage as an absolute minimum.
Staff are very valuable to every business and good staff contribute to good business ,we always treated our staff as we like to be treated and as family members, we believe if you have happy staff you have happy customers and successful business . Brighton and hove is an expensive city to live in and…
We support the Living Wage Campaign, and pay more than this whether part-time or full time because it is the right thing to do. The living wage is barely enough for people today, and so we have committed to paying more than that to all of our carers.
“We believe in working to live NOT living to work. No employer has the right to control their staff by forcing low wages on people. We love our cleaners to be motivated and happy. A happy workforce means happy clients! Resulting in a better company! We aim to grow in size so we can offer…
Having a Living Wage is a vital element in the current economic climate. Bills are ever increasing and being able to pay employees their worth is very important.
