Notts: Council becomes one of the first to start paying the Living Wage

By The Newsroom
Published 7th Apr 2014, 10:27 BST
Coun Alan RhodesCoun Alan Rhodes
Coun Alan Rhodes
More than 2,200 of Notts County Council’s lowest paid frontline workers had their pay increased from 1st April, after the authority became amongst the first in the East Midlands to introduce the Living Wage.

The introduction of the Living Wage has been designed to benefit employees – many of whom are part-time, female workers – in a range of frontline jobs such as caring for older people, cooking school meals, helping school children cross the road safely and cleaning classrooms.

In common with the majority of local authorities, pay, terms and conditions for the County Council’s centrally-employed staff are negotiated through a national agreement.

Wages have increased by just one per cent since 2009.

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