Tag: Living Wage

During the annual Living Wage Week Edinburgh has been accredited with Living Wage City status. This recognises that the council has set an ambition to double the number of Living Wage accredited businesses to...

SNP MSP Ben Macpherson has urged businesses in Edinburgh Northern and Leith to sign up to the Scottish Living Wage, as part of Living Wage Week which runs until 10 November.The Scottish Living Wage...

20/20 Productions, the creative communication, event and digital production company, becomes one of over 200 Living Wage employers to be recognised in Edinburgh.75% of accredited Living Wage businesses report increased motivation and retention rates...

Standard Life, one of the biggest employers in Edinburgh has been a Living Wage Employer for a couple of years now, and at the end of Living Wage Week they have confirmed that they will...

Proud bosses at locally based SimplyFixIt who will fix your computers and phones for you have become the first tech and computer repair specialist in the UK to be accredited for paying the Living Wage to...

The government says that a 40 pence increase in the Living Wage, calculated independently and set by the Living Wage Foundation in partnership with the Poverty Alliance, will benefit thousands of employees at Living Wage-accredited...

The Church of Scotland found itself this week on the devil horns of a dilemma. No, I’m not referring to ministers in same-sex marriages or fracking or inequality or the plight of refugees –...

The flowering of the crocuses and the occasional glimpse of blue sky has alerted us to the fact that spring has officially arrived. But unofficially, we have also had snow here on the sheltered...

Having announced their intention to do so in October, Hearts today become the first football club in Scotland to become an officially accredited Living Wage employer. This means that all staff employed at the Gorgie...