Living Wage

Suggested living wage sees 10.1% increase

23-Sep-2022 By Rebecca Weller

The real living wage has seen its biggest year-on-year increase with more than 390,000 workers across more than 11,000 living wage employers set to receive a pay boost, according to the Living Wage Foundation.

Pub salaries – who gets paid the most?

26-Feb-2018 By Nicholas Robinson

Employment in pubs is at a five-year high, with staff on average paid more than the national living wage. However, the trade still struggles to fill vacancies and some workers can feel short-changed when it comes to salaries

Hackney bar celebrates Living Wage Week with beer festival

07-Nov-2017 By James Beeson

Mason & Company, the craft beer bar in Hackney Wick, east London, is celebrating Living Wage Week with a beer festival dedicated to breweries that pay their workers the national living wage.

Casual Dining

National living wage 'could be positive for pubs'

25-Feb-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

Pubs can thrive under the national living wage (NLW) when it comes into force on 1 April, two operators have said, despite dire warnings from other trade leaders who say otherwise.

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Bar work tops list of those not getting living wage

02-Nov-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Bar work has topped the list of professions failing to pay a living wage, with 90% of bar staff not paid enough to reach an ‘acceptable standard of living.’

BBPA chair: accept living wage - or face intervention

15-Oct-2015 By MC Allegra FS

Jonathan Neame, the chairman of the British Beer and Pub Association, has urged the sector to embrace the challenges of the national living wage or face further legislation.

Analysis

'Lack of input' on living wage

15-Jul-2015 By Emily Sutherland

The Budget last week threw up an unexpected change to pay packets at pubs. Emily Sutherland finds out what sector bosses think of the implementation of a living wage — which has been introduced after no consultation with the industry.

Compulsory living wage strikes fear into licensees

15-Jul-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Added costs could see job losses across the UK, industry claim.

Vast majority of bar staff paid less than Living Wage

04-Nov-2014 By James Wallin, M&C Report

New research has shown that 90% of bar staff and 85% of waiters and waitresses are paid under the Living Wage – as the rate was raised again.

BrewDog commits to paying staff the living wage

03-Oct-2014 By John Harrington, M&C Report

BrewDog, the Scottish brewer and pub operator, has made a commitment to pay all its UK 314 staff at least the living wage.

The pub industry should be paying the Living Wage

05-Nov-2012 By Publican Sam

Today marks the beginning of Living Wage Week 2012, which, will encourage employers throughout the country to bring the poorest paid workers to a pay level above that of the national minimum wage.

A boycott of pubcos would yield results

28-Apr-2010 By Jay Smith

The best way to wake up the pubcos is to stop signing leases, says TV star and licensee Jay Smith.