Barnet Council to vote on NOT paying London Living Wage

On Tuesday 18 February 2015Remuneration Committee, Barnet Council are going to agree pay policy Pay Policy Statement 2015/16. In relation to the London Living Wage they say the following:

“3.14. For the period of this pay policy statement the council has decided to apply a living wage rate of £8.80 per hour worked for all employees. Employees whose pay rate is less than this amount will receive a pay supplement to bring their pay up to an equivalent of the published Barnet Living Wage rate.”

http://barnet.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s21262/Annex%20A%20-%20Pay%20Policy%20Statement.pdf

The London Living Wage is £9.15http://www.livingwage.org.uk/what-living-wage

According to Remuneration Committee 14 October 2013 figures inhttp://barnet.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s11046/London%20Living%20Wage.pdf it means that up to 838 Council workers are now earning less than the London Living Wage