Glasgow council plans to only work with companies who pay 'fair wage'

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“Those who won’t do it voluntarily should be weeded out of our procurement process.”

Glasgow City Council 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”.

READ MORE: Everything cancelled or closed following Queen Elizabeth II's death from sport to television Cllr Kelly’s motion, with amendments from the city’s Green group, received unanimous support. He said the council, which spends hundreds of millions a year on goods and services, was “blessed with the best corporate procurement unit in the country”.

 

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So why doesn’t the government increase the minimum wage instead of getting local councils to guilt trip companies into paying a living wage. Surly the minimum wage should be what they consider a living wage which in my option is still to low for the majority of people to live.

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