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Why living wages should be a priority during COVID-19

  • Written by Rosalind Searle, Professor of HRM and organisational Psychology, University of Glasgow
Why living wages should be a priority during COVID-19It's a living, just: an NHS worker marching for a pay rise, July 2020.Yui Mok/PA Wire/PA Images

Work should lift people out of poverty - but, increasingly, those in low-paid jobs are suffering as much as the unemployed. The Living Wage offers a solution. It is a wage sufficient to live a decent standard of life, independent of welfare and other...