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46 articles found with tag 'Real Living Wage'

Cleanology’s Dominic Ponniah Elected to Living Wage Foundation’s Leadership Group

The Co-Founder and CEO of Cleanology, Dominic Ponniah, is joining the Living Wage Foundation’s Recognised Service Provider Leadership Group as...

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Real Living Wage Increases in the UK

Those working for Real Living Wage accredited employers are set to receive a pay rise: to £12 an hour across the UK (£1.10 increase), and...

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Amulet Signs Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter

Security services provider Amulet, part of Churchill Group, has joined the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter to improve employment practices...

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Andron FM Awarded JLL Soft Services Contract

Andron Facilities Management, the national soft FM provider, has signed a five-year deal with JLL Property & Asset Management UK. The new...

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Real Living Wage Rate Rises to £10.90 an Hour

The Living Wage Foundation has brought forward its wage increase due to the sharp rise in living costs. The new Living Wage rates have risen...

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FM Firms Win at Living Wage Champion Awards

Several companies in the facilities management industry featured in the winners' list at this year’s Living Wage Champion Awards. EMCOR...

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Living Wage Updates in FM

Some businesses in the facilities management sector commit to paying their staff an independently calculated Living Wage – let’s take a...

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How the National Living Wage Rise Could Impact Your Security Services

With many officers paid the National Living Wage, security workforces are going to be some of those most impacted by upcoming changes. Julie Hulme...

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FM Good News Roundup

To finish 2021 on a positive note, we’ve rounded up the latest good news stories from the FM and built environment...

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Pioneer FM Wins Science and Technologies Facilities Council Contract

Pioneer FM has been awarded a three-year contract to provide the cleaning and associated services at Daresbury Laboratory for the Science and...

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First Response Group Founders Named Black British Businesspeople of the Year

Jamal Tahlil and Edgar Chibaka, co-founders of security and facilities management provider First Response Group, have been named Black British...

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Spotlight Interview | Mary-Jane Pettit

Pioneer FM provides total FM services for offices, schools, commercial and retail facilities, government agencies, and other large sites. CEO and...

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Real Living Wage Celebrates 20th Birthday

Over £1.5 billion in increased wages has been put back into the pockets of over 260,000 low-paid workers over the past 20...

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Corps Security Celebrates Social Enterprise Status

Corps Security is celebrating its recently awarded Social Enterprise status. Social Enterprise UK is the leading global authority on social...

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EMCOR UK Becomes Recognised by Living Wage Foundation

EMCOR UK has been accredited as a Living Wage Foundation Recognised Service Provider. As a Recognised Service Provider, EMCOR UK has committed to...

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New Watchdog Launched to Protect Workers' Rights

The government is to create a body to reduce workplace abuse and modern slavery in the UK. The new workers’ watchdog is to take over...

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BAM Facilities Management Becomes Living Wage Foundation Accredited

BAM Facilities Management, part of BAM Construct UK, has become accredited as a Living Wage Foundation Recognised Service Provider. The recognition...

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37% of UK Workers Given Less Than a Week's Notice of Shifts

Close to two-fifths (37 per cent) of UK workers in full or part-time employment are given less than a week's...

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British Cleaning Council Supports Real Living Wage

The British Cleaning Council has renewed its commitment to being a Living Wage employer, encouraging member organisations to support the payment of...

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139 Companies Failed to Pay Minimum Wage to Over 95,000 Workers

After a two-year hiatus, The Naming Scheme has resumed, showing that named companies failed to pay £6.7 million to over 95,000 workers. One...

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2021 New Year's Resolutions for Employers

As we prepare to wave goodbye to a difficult 2020, what positive changes as employers can we bring to the new year? Join the Race at Work...

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Spotlight Interview | Richard Burgess | Unify by Bruntwood

Unify is a new venture from Bruntwood, which is already disrupting the Facilities Management market. By in-sourcing many of their key services they...

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Bruntwood Launches New FM Business

Bruntwood, the commercial property specialist, is expanding its service offering with the launch of a new facilities management business,...

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Cleaners Must Be Paid Fair Wage After Role in Fighting COVID-19

Dominic Ponniah, CEO at Cleanology, sets out how Britain’s cleaners must be fairly paid, especially in light of the crucial role they have...

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Clean for Good Report Reveals Need for More Ethical Outsourcing

The potential dangers that employers face when they outsource cleaning services have been outlined a report, forwarded by Dr Eve Poole. According...

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IWFM Publishes Guidance Showing Benefits of Paying Real Living Wage

IWFM has published new guidance on the Real Living Wage, explaining the benefits and practicalities of paying it in the FM profession. Created in...

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National Living Wage To Rise Again In April

New Year's Eve saw the Low Pay Commission publish 2019 recommendations on the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) - which...

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Jobs Paying Less Than The Real Living Wage Drops To Seven-Year Low

Less than one-fifth (19%) of UK jobs now pay below the Real Living Wage (as defined by the Living Wage Foundation), with the latest estimate down from...

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Work Insecurity - Living Hours Campaign Launched

The Living Wage Foundation has launched Living Hours, a new programme to tackle the widespread insecurity many 'employees' suffer over hours...

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Poor Pay Packs Punch In England's East

441,950 East Of England residents in employment earned less than the real living wage of £9.00 per hour in the year to April 2018 a new GMB...

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Government Departments In Disarray As Migrant Workers Add To Brexit Woes

With the Government already in disarray over more Brexit drama, striking workers brought fresh disruption to the corridors of power on January 22 in...

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Come On You Irons - Hammer's Home Scores On Living Wage Goal

Revised (Real) Living Wage rates have been launched at events across the UK this week as the National hourly rate went up 25p to £9 per hour,...

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Fireworks Night And Real Living Wage Rockets

November 5, saw the Living Wage Foundation announce a new UK Living Wage hourly rate of £9 per hour, an increase of 25p per hour. And...

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Security Smorgasbord - Springfields Nuclear And IKEA Contracts Won

Mitie’s security business has secured contracts with IKEA and Springfields. The contracts together are worth £5 million per annum. The...

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Real Living Wage Champion

Enhance Office Cleaning has won the Living Wage Champion Award for recognised service providers. The 2018 Living Wage Champion Awards give...

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Better Than Min On Road To Real

Working in partnership with the GMB, Securitas UK has introduced a minimum wage of £8.03 for security officers, twenty pence higher than the...

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Minimum Wage Cheats Named & Shamed Again

March 9 saw 179 employers named and shamed for underpaying thousands of minimum wage workers. 9,200 minimum wage workers were cheated out of...

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It's A Hard Day's Night

The number of night time workers in London has increased with 109,140 new night-time jobs created between 2004 and 2016, according to the latest...

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Cambridge Dons Living Wage Pledge

The University of Cambridge has signed up to the Living Wage - and we have a blog from Cambridge City Council - Championing the real Living Wage since...

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Undercover in Premier Inn - ISS Misadventure Starts Here

When a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary reporter went undercover as an ISS housekeeper at a London Premier Inn, she found some uncomfortable truths...

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A Premier Response From ISS

ISS has found itself in the eye of a storm as a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary revealed unsavoury hygiene practices and unpaid overtime on a Premier...

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Real Living Wage Hourly Rates Released

The Real Living Wage hourly rates have increased (on Nov 6) to £8.75 in the rest of the UK and £10.20 in London - that's £1.25...

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One In Five Brits Still Trapped In Working Poverty

The 2017 Living Wage report for KPMG found that one in five people (21 per cent) in the UK are still earning below the Real Living Wage, meaning that...

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Real Living Wage To Take-off At Heathrow

Heathrow will become the first Living Wage Airport. This recognition will see 3,200 airport workers being paid the Real Living Wage by the end of 2020...

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Keeping it Real on Living Wage Recognised Service Providers Day

New Real Living Wage rates were announced on October 31 - the start of Real Living Wage Week. Thursday was set aside for Recognised Service Providers...

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