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It's not that I don't care about business but you have to ask how much business cares back. Most businesses seek to generate a profit for their owners and shareholders etc. To do so many will actively seek to contain and manage down employee costs. A vulnerable, weak and surplus market of non...

Erm...there's a clue in the name 'Living Wage'. Organisations have introduced the Living Wage without increasing other (higher) rates of pay (Brighton council being one). Plenty of businesses are currently creaming profits off low paid workers and can afford it. Your original post made direct...

The Living Wage would be considered a minimum. A person more experienced and effective in a specific role would anticipate being paid more. Experience of work in general does not automatically make you more effective in a specific role. Experienced workers can be crap and quickly outperformed by...

Why not? I've never understood why the min wage is lower for the young. What's that about (apart from saving money)? Turns out the (outside London) Living Wage is £7.65 per hour = £14.7k pa based on 37 hour per week.

Fair comment. You sound like one of the good guys operating in a system controlled by the very wealthy which is seeing them get richer at the expense of the poor. All the best with your business.

Yeah but doesn't the fact that the market rate is so much lower than what you pay demonstrate that you're one of the (laudable) exceptions to the rule?

Well the LW is sometimes considered as the bare minimum required to meet basic needs which is, arguably, different from decent...

The local Living Wage is just under £7.50 an hour I think. That's £14.4k gross pa based on 37 hour week.

Some places are hanging on & pay Living Wage but will be under very heavy scrutiny as council has to save £100m over next 4 years... http://www.ableandwilling.org.uk/about-us