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Bharat Mehta

Opinion: paying the Living Wage makes business sense, so what are you waiting for?

By Bharat Mehta | Fri 19th October 2012 - 10:52 am

The Living Wage is something that all the main political parties endorse. According to the Prime Minister it is an idea ‘whose time has come’; Nick Clegg is behind it; Ed Miliband praised it at the Labour conference; and Boris Johnson is a staunch supporter of the campaign. It is therefore unfortunate that, for an idea that enjoys such strong cross-party support, to date, the only local councils accredited as Living Wage employers are of one political colour – red.

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