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Mayor announces new London Living Wage of £10.75 per hour

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11 November 2019
The Mayor of London today announced that the London Living Wage rate is to increase to £10.75 per hour – meaning that 60,000 Londoners are set for a pay rise.

This is a 1.9 per cent increase from last year’s rate of £10.55 per hour.

There are now more than 1,758 accredited London Living Wage businesses and organisations, employing approximately 60,000 people - double the number since 2016.

In the last year, newly accredited businesses include London City Airport and Crystal Palace Football Club.

In July, the Mayor launched his Good Work Standard, a new benchmark for good employment standards. The London Living Wage is at the heart of the scheme, which has already accredited 40 employers including the likes of UBS, EY, KPMG, PWC and Deloitte.

London is now also home to the first Living Wage Building, International House in Brixton, owned by Lambeth Council and managed by 3Space. This qualifies as a Living Wage building as every company that is based in International House pay their employees the Living Wage.

Despite the notable progress made in London nearly one in five jobs in the capital pays less than the Living Wage.

The Mayor has also ensured that all organisations within the GLA group (Transport for London, Metropolitan Police Service, Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, London Fire Brigade, London Legacy Development Corporation and Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation) pay the London Living Wage.

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