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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 have this problem in my organisation and the living wage increase has had a massive impact. I'm food manufacturing and about 90% of my workforce are hourly paid. Approximately 50% are paid the living wage and the rest are paid more on a differential basis depending on their skills. We have basically had to increase nearly everyone by 30p. Last year I managed to off-set some of it by reducing the night shift allowance but this year we have had to take the full hit.
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  • I have this problem in my organisation and the living wage increase has had a massive impact. I'm food manufacturing and about 90% of my workforce are hourly paid. Approximately 50% are paid the living wage and the rest are paid more on a differential basis depending on their skills. We have basically had to increase nearly everyone by 30p. Last year I managed to off-set some of it by reducing the night shift allowance but this year we have had to take the full hit.
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  • in reply to Laura Ann
    The Labour Party have pledged the minimum wage to be £10 per hour in 2020 so to take up the previous point, wages structures are going to be put under a lot of pressure within the next few years. Therefore it is worth spending the time to not only look at the wage systems but the wider view of reward and productivity.

    Wages are always a sensitive issue for charities but irrespective of the industry, wages will increasingly become compressed at the lower end and so a long hard think about the next 5 - 10 years would probably be time well spent
  • in reply to Steven
    Of course, the compression of lower rates of pay would be less of a problem if we didn't have to deal with this sort of nonsense:

    www.glassdoor.com/.../

    I'm sure, however, that this isn't a problem for Cath or Laura Ann... ;)
  • in reply to Robey
    Fully agree Robey and these are just the published figures, there will no doubt be much higher ratios for esoteric organisations and those who have very complex structures but at a much more mundane level I am not sure I would want to be a supervisor for £100 a year more than the workers
  • in reply to Robey
    The issue I have had with Glassdoor on salaries is that the rates of pay they have published for my organisation have been wildly inaccurate but when I contacted them, they said the information had come from a reliable source and they would not take it down. They also published salaries for jobs that we don't have (Senior Scientist was one) and I emailed them about this but got the same response.