MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE 

• Raise Minimum Wage to £16 per hour from age 16 upwards. 
• Affordable as boss's National Insurance contributions reduced to 10 per cent from 13.8 per cent by Over 50s & Young Labouring Ages party in government, and
  small businesses lowered corporation tax
  to 17 per cent. 
  
  
• Apprentices from age 16 get same minimum wage of £16 per hour.
  
  
• Minimum 16 Hours per week.
  
  
• No Zero Hour Contracts.  

WORKERS PAY 

• An immediate above-inflation pay rise for workers to restore wages after over a decade of pay freezes and below-inflation rises.
  
  
• Regular pay increases for all,
  linked to trade-union agreed measures of inflation.
  
  
• Full wage rise demanded  by ambulance workers, nurses and Junior Doctors, GPs and Consultant doctors.

Background

UNISON informs
..."Low pay has also been defined in relation to the cost of living by the Minimum Income Standard Project.

By their calculations, for a single person household anything less than £19,200 a year, before tax, counts as low pay"...

So our policy of £16 per hour, with minimum of 16 hour working week, delivers:

• Minimum of £256 per week, that is £1,024 a month, and £12,288 per year.
  

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