{"id":1439,"date":"2018-11-06T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2018-11-06T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T10:21:25","slug":"living-wage-new-rates-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/living-wage-new-rates-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Wage &#8211; New Rates Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Increases to The Living Wage Rates<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The new rates of the Living Wage were announced recently.\u00a0 Employers who have subcribed to paying the Living Wage are expected to start paying the new rates before 1st May 2019.\u00a0\u00a0 The new rates are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">London\u00a0 \u00a310.55 per hour &#8211; increase = 35p per hour;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Elsewhere \u00a39 per hour &#8211; increase = 25p per hour.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no differentiation according to the age of an individual.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Several companies, such as Lidl, have announced already that they will increase their pay rates to that level.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Living Wage v The National Minimum Wage<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In contrast, the National Minimum Wage (NMW) has rates based on age bands and a rate for apprentices.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The NMW rates are increased usually from April of each year. \u00a0 It is likely that the gap between the the Living Wage and the National Mimimum Wage rates will be reduced over the next few years.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you wish to know more about the current rates of the NMW, you can view the rates and tips on applying them on our <a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/personnel-advice\/key-hr-facts-statutory-rights-and-tribunal-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key HR Facts website<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/personnel-advice\/key-hr-facts-statutory-rights-and-tribunal-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will see that the Key HR Facts gives current information about various statutory rates of pay, statutory leave and other minimum and maximum entitlements of employees.\u00a0\u00a0 The information is free to use.<\/p>\n<p>If you find the pages helpful, feel free to share them with your colleagues and friends.\u00a0 Use the following link to <a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/personnel-advice\/key-hr-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key HR Facts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwage.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Living Wage\u00a0 Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/personnel-advice\/key-hr-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key HR Facts website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 <strong>2018<\/strong> <strong>HR Management Dimensions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Web site:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HR Management Dimensions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increases to The Living Wage Rates The new rates of the Living Wage were announced recently.\u00a0 Employers who have subcribed to paying the Living Wage are expected to start paying the new rates before 1st May 2019.\u00a0\u00a0 The new rates are: London\u00a0 \u00a310.55 per hour &#8211; increase = 35p per hour; Elsewhere \u00a39 per hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-management-dimensions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}