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National Living Wage

Cath

Hi all

I am working with a charity who has paid their visitor services team the national minimum/living wage and so has increased it to £7.50 in April.  This now has an impact on Supervisors or Administrators who were paid £7.50/£7.55 per hour for undertaking a role with some additional responsibility.  To increase these hourly rates too will be hard for the charity to manage and I wondered whether anyone has any ideas of how they have handled this in their organisations please?  We have a member of staff currently on £7.55 employed in Administration who has asked for a pay rise based on everyone else's salary increasing.

I look forward to hearing from anyone.

Thanks

Cath

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  • I think the argument for Supervisors is pretty unstoppable and unfortunately the organisation (charity or not) will have to find a way to restore the differential in some way. Its unrealistic to expect people to take on the higher level duties at the same level of pay and whilst you could try and fool around with things like hours of work, holidays etc in the end I think you will be forced to increase the pay.

    The argument for Administrators is different. If you do not believe they are doing work of a significantly higher value then you can resist the request for a wage increase on economic grounds - you may well lose a few administrators along the way - but its down to how you communicate it.
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  • I think the argument for Supervisors is pretty unstoppable and unfortunately the organisation (charity or not) will have to find a way to restore the differential in some way. Its unrealistic to expect people to take on the higher level duties at the same level of pay and whilst you could try and fool around with things like hours of work, holidays etc in the end I think you will be forced to increase the pay.

    The argument for Administrators is different. If you do not believe they are doing work of a significantly higher value then you can resist the request for a wage increase on economic grounds - you may well lose a few administrators along the way - but its down to how you communicate it.
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