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We are aware that some care providers pay more than the Living Wage and will continue to work with members of the Living Wage in Care Implementation Group to ensure successful implementation of the policy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 December 2017
The ScotRail Franchise Agreement commits ScotRail to pay all its staff at least the living wage and to take reasonable endeavours to procure that all its contractors and suppliers in the UK also receive at least the living wage.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 November 2016
A key indicator of any employer’s fair work commitment is payment of the real living wage. We were the first Government in the United Kingdom to become an accredited living wage employer.
The pay day loan industry, which is worth more than £2 billion, seems to be concerned only with profits and shows no concern for people’s lives or for the pressures that it inflicts.
The only family member who went back to an intact house was my great-aunt Margaret, who lived in Agamemnon Street. Her relief at still having a home for her three wee boys was short lived.
This morning’s figures show that 10,000 more children in Scotland are living in poverty. That means that almost a quarter of a million children in Scotland are living in poverty today.
However, is it fair that somebody who does not live on the croft but cultivates it is penalised when their neighbour who lives on the croft but neglects it is not?