{"id":322979,"date":"2025-08-06T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322979\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:47:15","slug":"everton-sign-up-to-living-wage-pension-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322979\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton sign up to living wage pension scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The living pension is a voluntary savings target for employers who want to tackle low pension saving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katherine Chapman, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said Everton &#8220;is sending a powerful message that everyone should have a decent standard of living, now and in the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;Just as the real living wage ensures workers can meet their everyday needs today, the living pension helps them plan for a retirement where they can live with dignity and security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The management at the Toffees said the club had gone beyond the minimum legal requirement for staff pensions, in order to help keep workers out of poverty in later life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club has for many years made pension contributions on behalf of our people which are considerably in excess of the auto-enrolment requirements,&#8221; said Ms Haynes, as she announced the decision to join the Living Wage Foundation&#8217;s pension scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Full-time staff who work at Everton will receive a total annual pension contribution of at least \u00a32,950, with a minimum of \u00a31,720 coming from the club, adjusted on a pro-rata basis for part-time staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The living pension is a voluntary savings target for employers who want to tackle low pension saving. Katherine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114982842907896045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}