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  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
    Mike Harris
    There is little to fear from a US minimum wage rise

    Risks of some job losses outweighed by the benefits of higher productivity and increased consumption

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    LexWalmart Inc
    Walmart/minimum wage: aisle of man Premium

    Retailer boosts pay to $15 an hour but critics will not be so easily satisfied

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Sarah O'Connor
    The minimum wage alone can’t save the US working class

    It’s not a magic wand. As Winston Churchill argued, other measures are needed too

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
    UK employment
    Tesco and Pizza Hut named and shamed over minimum wage breaches

    Ministers blast UK companies as ‘rogue employers’ for short-changing workers over pay

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Executive Pay
    Retail chiefs in UK earn among highest multiples of workers’ wages

    Report comparing boardroom and shopfloor pay highlights yawning disparity in earnings

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Covid crisis fuels global wage inequality

    ILO says lower paid workers — disproportionately women — have been most affected by a loss of working hours

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Boohoo.Com PLC
    Boohoo hires Leveson to monitor its supply chain

    Fashion retailer appoints retired judge after allegations over its treatment of workers

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    Martin Sandbu
    Minimum wage rises are gaining ground

    Economists and politicians rethink their opposition to high floors for the lowest paid workers

  • Sunday, 11 October, 2020
    UK retail industry
    UK retail body steps up calls for government action on illegal pay

    More than 10,000 factory workers denied £27m in wages since July, says British Retail Consortium

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  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    Boohoo.Com PLC
    MP demands removal of Boohoo chief over supply chain scandal

    Liz Kendall calls for shareholder action after review confirms reports workers were paid less than minimum wage

  • Wednesday, 23 September, 2020
    UK employment
    UK employers urged to ‘exhaust all alternatives’ before cutting jobs

    CBI, TUC and Acas issue joint warning as chancellor weighs new rescue package

  • Sunday, 12 July, 2020
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
    A crisis is an ideal time to raise pay

    Companies are realising that higher wages for the less well-off can pay for themselves

  • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
    Boohoo.Com PLC
    Multiple Boohoo inspections find no modern slavery offences

    Lack of enforcement shows challenge in tackling allegations of supply chain issues

  • Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
    UK employment
    UK labour market expert urges better enforcement of workers’ rights

    Matthew Taylor calls for comprehensive rethink of how employee protection laws are policed

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    UK employment
    Greater protection urged for UK’s lowest paid workers

    Resolution Foundation calls for higher value to be placed on workers who have kept essential services going

  • Wednesday, 1 April, 2020
    Sarah O'Connor
    Time to make amends to the low-paid essential worker

    The coronavirus crisis has exposed the plight of a precarious army labouring around the clock

  • Sunday, 8 March, 2020
    Paul Tudor Jones
    A simple first step for businesses to mend capitalism

    Awareness is the basis for action. If you do not measure something, you will struggle to change it

  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2020
    German economy
    Germany’s minimum wage boosted productivity but hit small companies

    Introduction in 2015 cut inequality without significantly affecting overall employment, research shows

  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2020
    UK employment
    Hand car washes face clampdown on workers’ abuses

    Call for licences and tougher regulations owing to ‘endemic non-compliance’

  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
    Minimum wage breaches face ‘naming and shaming’ again

    Technical or inadvertent flouting of law will be less harshly punished

  • Monday, 27 January, 2020
    Manchester businesses agree to ban zero-hours contracts

    Employers in city region sign charter aimed at improving wages and workers’ treatment

  • Friday, 17 January, 2020
    News in-depthUK employment
    College cleaner case raises labour rules concerns

    Regulation under scrutiny after women claim they were paid less than minimum wage

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2020
    Government risks missing pay pledge, says think-tank

    Resolution Foundation says without a strong economic deterrent, underpayment is on the rise

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2020
    EU employment
    Brussels faces fight over EU minimum wage pledge

    Resistance from members worried that collective bargaining deals will be undermined

  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2019
    Low-paid workers to get 6.2% rise in living wage

    Government to deliver ‘biggest cash increase ever’ in bid to shore up working class support

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