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How does a company agreeing to pay the 'The Living Wage' get to have an item on the evening News to them selves ?

Is it part of some clever advertising on behalf of the company, or is it a 'good feel' story to counteract the current 'working tax credit' story?

The thing is that the supposed £9.50 minimum / living wage isn't due to take effect until 2020 anyway. By which time inflation will have risen so high that £9.50 probably won't be worth as much as £6.50 now.

I never got the part about it starting in 2020,now it makes some sort of sense.

It irritates me how the powers that be can have a recommended minimum wage, with focus on the 'wage' and not earnings or bonus, but fail to have a maximum wage.

If the principle is right for the low end on,why not the obscenity the other end ?

For the Tories to have had any credibility with their "Living" Wage (a rebranding of Labour's Minimum Wage), when they said £9.50 an hour, they should have made it immediately implementable or, say, as of the New Year. Stating that's what they are aiming for (not what it WILL be) by 2020 is just a con, getting their electioneering ready in time for the next election (because 2020 is, coincidentally, when the next election will be).

Hopefully by then people will have been politicised enough to realise politics is something thgey need to be interested in.