Millions of UK workers to get pay rise as Reeves plans increased minimum wage

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/25/millions-uk-workers-pay-rise-reeves-plans-increased-minimum-wage

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41 comments

  1. Good to see the government supporting the acceleration of jobs being replaced by AI

  2. No issues with increasing the minimum wage, you should be able to support yourself working full time on minimum wage.

    The issue is that its caught up to a lot of other wages, working in education, a Grade 3 job has now pretty much entirely caught up with a Grade 4 job and them Grade 4 staff are left thinking whats the point of the extra work they are expected to do?

    I won’t know how possible it is, but something needs to be put in place to encourage business to also increase everyone else’s wages in line. Currently this is only benefitting a small percentage of the workforce.

  3. Probably get voted down but I don’t think this is the right decision, thousands of hospitality jobs have already been lost and the price of drinking or eating out is ridiculous. I get that there is a cost of living crisis but I think this is a lazy way of trying to solve it. I’m not completely against the minimum wage but it should be raised when the economy is doing well. At this rate we’ll live in a Britain where there’s no small business

  4. The way to ease the cost of living crisis is to reduce the cost of living.

    This could lead to more wage demands by people not on the minimum wage which can mean greater costs to business… and higher prices for the things we need every day.

  5. It should be law that your wages go up every year by the amount of cpi.

    If businesses don’t like it, they can pressure the government to reduce inflation.

  6. The problem with this is that it’s pointless unless you introduce controls on wage to revenue ratios, all that will happen is that companies will increase prices to cover the increase, and add a little on top for the shareholders,
    Totally negating any benefit

    Increases in min wage don’t help people on min wage and have an adverse affect on non min wage employees because companies use it as an excuse to not give inflationary rises

  8. Stop raising the wages and start lowering the cost of everything for fucks sake.

  9. I’m sorry, but that’s a mistake.

    Hope I’m wrong.

  10. *People are skint*

    >Give more money

    *Businesses put up prices to cover costs*

    >Do nothing

    *People are skint*

  11. So now NHS workers Band 3 and above will see their pay squeezed even more as this increase will devalue their work/pay further as it’s not passed onto them, while being told they need to accept a below inflation pay rise next year squeezing it even further. I’ve worked in public sector for 10 years, next year will be my last.

  12. It’s comical how quickly minimum wage rises compared to market average wages. We should 100% be able to afford to live on minimum wage, but since 2016 minimum salary has gone from £16K > £24K all while national average wage has gone from £32K > £34K

  13. Increasing minimum wage increases inflation.

    She is the worsr chancellor in histort
    Y

  14. Millions of UK workers to get pay rise of -100% as Reeves plan increased unemployment

  15. Everyone will get the same standard wage soon no matter what you do.

  16. One thing at least it guarantees all band 2 nhs staff a payrise

  17. A 4% pay rise.

    That’ll make the pennies stretch far when my annual spending on groceries has went up 29%

  19. The minimum wage for over-21s will increase by 50p per hour from April! People are going to be splashing those 50ps left, right, centre, willy nilly!

  20. Translation: Chancellor gives businesses & landlords the green light to raise prices & rents.

  21. many organisations will have largely static labour costs, the result of this is fewer employees

  22. Oh good, now the weekly shop can go from £250 to £300. Now if only she could raise employers contribution for NI again perhaps I could pay just a little bit more 🤦‍♂️

  24. Yes, but inflation will nullify that. It is no good just raising the minimum wage. Especially when you are squeezing many for more and more tax.

  25. Lol, what’s the point of even doing A levels or going to uni then?

    When jobs which requires no GCSEs pay the same as a significant portion of jobs which require an education.

    Why does Labour hate the lower middle class do much?

  27. Can’t wait for my middle management salary not to rise

  29. Increases in minimum wage drive efficiencies which helps keep prices low but it doesn’t happen overnight. The problem is the minimum wage has increased so much over the last 3 years companies can’t keep up and costs get passed on. If labour is 25% of a product the minimum wage increase has to be multiplied by 4 to retain the same margin so a 10% increase in minimum wage equates to a 40% price increase. That’s why coffee shop owners say a coffee should be £10

  30. Hiring is already at its lowest level for years and Labour want to make it even more expensive to employ people!? They really are absolutely clueless and Reeves deserves to be the least popular chancellor ever.

  31. Great, can’t wait for prices of everything else to rise even higher making the whole thing pointless.

  33. How about they work on lowering the price of essential things, like energy prices, rent, food etc?

    The NMW has been going up for years and people are still struggling.

  34. More companies will be restructuring aka job cuts. More businesses will increase prices. More businesses will close.

    Seen it the last time round

  35. Labour really are getting desperate for votes now. What a shit show. I’m a skilled engineer on less than £19 an hour basic. To make more, I have to work shifts and earn an extra premium. Minimum wage isn’t that far behind now, makes you wonder why I bothered doing extra training.

  36. Cool, this doesn’t help me in anyway to deal with costs. Glad for the people that are going to earn more. I imagine sooner or later more and more people are going to leave specialised jobs and management jobs to go do an easy minimum wage job because it pays the same.

  38. So correct me if I’m wrong but this means companies will have to pay more to cover costs of those on minimum, meaning anyone who has been on a stagnant mid/senior wage for years will be less likely to get a nice bump because there will be less budget?

    What’s the point anymore. I had to survive in London on minimum wage at about £16k 8 years ago and now after all the effort put in to progress, I’m slowly creeping back to minimum wage?

    Don’t get me wrong it’s nice for those on minimum but it just seems like mid-level roles are becoming kind of trivial.

  39. My wage goes.up.with min wage every year… Every year every thing else goes up so I don’t feel any benefit for having an increase. … If it is different to those reading this, good for you… But in the end it means shit to me and I spend more.hours in work and have less money for it.

    But, yeah glad for a day shit is going up… Then milk will go to £2.00 a bottle or something.

  41. Unions would be so great for all of y’all. Like why do companies still pay 25k for graduates when it should be 35k. They don’t care about y’all.

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