Under a Labour Government 27% of employees and half a million people in the North West will benefit from our £10 an hour Real Living Wage (RLW)

Britain needs a pay rise. Real wages in Britain are still lower now than they were before the crisis, 10 years ago. Workers have faced a lost decade.

The OBR are now forecasting that the National Living Wage will be £8.75 per hour in 2020, not £9 per hour as had initially been promised. At the same time the OBR has forecast that the National Minimum Wage for 21-24 year olds will reach just £7.75 per hour for 21-24 year olds by 2020.

A Labour Government will raise the Minimum Wage to the level of the Living Wage (expected to be at least £10 per hour by 2020) – for all workers aged 18 or over, so that work pays.

This will lift the pay of millions of people across the country.

Analysis by the Labour Party shows the percentage [and number] of people in each regional local authority district and unitary authority who will be benefit from such measures.

This shows that 27% of employees and over 573,000 people will be affected in the North West.

Rebecca Long-Bailey, Shadow Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, said:
“The stagnation of real wages has been unprecedented since at least the Second World War. We must take bold and imaginative measures to tackle low pay. One crucial step in this direction is to raise the Minimum Wage to the level of the Living Wage, expected to be at least £10 per hour by 2020, – for all workers aged 18 or over.

People should be rewarded for a full day’s work and need the dignity that comes with decent wages. Britain needs a pay rise and only a Labour government can deliver one.”