One in two hospitality jobs in the UK are paid below the real Living Wage of \u00a313.85 per hour, according to recent research.<\/p>\n
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Analysis of ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) data by the Living Wage Foundation revealed that 53.1% of jobs in hospitality are paid below the real Living Wage \u2013 the highest rate of any UK sector for the 14th year running.<\/p>\n
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Data also showed that 759,000 of the 4.4 million low paid jobs in the UK came from hospitality, while a million of these came from the wholesale and retail sector, which ranked third out of the industries with the highest rates of low pay.<\/p>\n
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The Living Wage Foundation has subsequently urged more hospitality businesses to join the 500 employers in the sector that already pay the real Living Wage, which offers an additional \u00a31.64 per hour than the National Minimum Wage.<\/p>\n
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A full-time worker who is paid the \u00a313.85 real Living Wage will receive \u00a32,400 in additional wages annually compared to the current minimum rate, while this figure rises to over \u00a35,000 for a full-time worker in London, who is paid \u00a314.80 per hour on the real Living Wage.<\/p>\n
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Katherine Chapman, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said:\u00a0\u201cToday\u2019s findings show that\u00a0one in two hospitality workers are paid less than the real Living Wage, the highest rate of any UK sector.\u00a0Over three quarters of a\u00a0million hospitality\u00a0staff, as well as millions more across the UK, are still struggling to live with dignity as their pay is too low to cover basic living costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe real Living Wage is the solution.\u00a0After years of high prices, it\u2019s\u00a0more important than ever that more employers join over 500 in the hospitality sector, and\u00a016,000 across the wider economy,\u00a0committed to doing the right thing by\u00a0paying their workers in line with the cost of living.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Isobel Hughes, a casual assistant at Living Wage employer North Tyneside Big Local Caf\u00e9 in Whitley Bay, added:\u00a0\u201cThe fact that North Tyneside Big Local pays\u00a0Living Wage is one of the reasons I was keen to work here. If you see an employer paying\u00a0the Living Wage, it\u2019s\u00a0an indicator that the employer cares about its workers. In caf\u00e9 environments it can feel like employers pay you and treat you to a level that they feel they can get away with. I wanted to work in a space where hard work\u00a0is rewarded.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Over 16,000 employers across the UK pay the Living Wage, which has provided an extra \u00a34.7b for workers since the launch of the campaign in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One in two hospitality jobs in the UK are paid below the real Living Wage of \u00a313.85 per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-789812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116135850473195769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789812","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=789812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}