• News 10 02 2021

  Boost minimum wage and re-balance jobs tax in order to tackle low pay and protect jobs after coronavirus crisis

  The Government has been urged to hold firm on its commitment to boosting the minimum wage over the course of the parliament in order to give low paid workers a much needed pay rise, but to introduce a temporary tax cut to minimise the impact on employers recovering from the pandemic.
• Research and Reports 10 02 2021

  Future of the minimum wage - final report

  This final report in our programme on the minimum wage explores how an increase in the wage floor could be delivered as part of a wider labour marker strategy to tackle poverty and improve job quality.

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• Research and Reports 19 10 2020

  The future of the minimum wage – Autumn briefing

  This briefing paper aims to contribute to the debate by highlighting the findings from our ongoing research programme with Carnegie UK Trust on the future of the minimum wage.

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• News 18 08 2020

  Raising the floor – employer views of a higher minimum wage

  In our latest report in the Future of the Minimum Wage series, we examine employers’ responses to past increases in the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) and consider how future increases might impact them.
• Research and Reports 17 08 2020

  The future of the minimum wage - The employer perspective

  This is the second report in the series, looking into how employers reacted to the introduction of and increases to the minimum wage in the past, how they feel they will be able to handle planned future increases, and what support they might need.

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• News 17 08 2020

  Most employers support increase in minimum wage but want government support to adapt

  The report – based on a survey of over 1,000 businesses conducted at the outset of the coronavirus crisis – shows that over half (54%) support the UK government’s policy of increasing the national living wage.
• Policy 04 06 2020

  Carnegie UK Trust and Learning and Work Institute joint submission to the Low Pay Commission

  The Carnegie UK Trust and Learning and Work Institute are currently working in partnership to explore the opportunities, risks and limitations of the policy of increasing the minimum wage.
• Research and Reports 01 05 2020

  The future of the minimum wage - The worker perspective

  The government has committed to increasing the minimum wage in order to tackle low pay. In the first report of a series on the future of the minimum wage, we find strong and widespread popular support for further increases to the wage floor.

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• Projects 31 03 2020

  Future of the minimum wage

  Learning and Work Institute has partnered with Carnegie Trust to explore the impact of increasing the UK-wide minimum wage on workers, employers and the economy. We will be producing a series of reports from different perspectives.

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