“Unfortunately, there are 20% of the businesses that we do business with that don’t yet pay the real living wage.'
is planning to become an accredited Real Living Wage employer to ensure workers carrying out jobs for the local authority are paid a “fair wage”.
Officials have also been asked to look at how “pay disparity policies”, which “mandate that the highest paid employee’s salary cannot be more than an agreed multiplier of the lowest paid”, could be used by the council. “Whenever you look at the amount of money we spend on goods and services, it makes us one of the largest procurers in the city, quite possibly in the country, and puts us in a position of considerable influence when it comes to affecting the pay and conditions of those who work in our city.”
“I can understand officers’ hesitance to take risks on that matter, it is their job,” cllr Kelly said.
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