The TUC’s ‘Raising Pay for Everyone’ report details the path to a £15 minimum wage and calls on the Government to work with the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to deliver this target as soon as possible and end ‘low-pay Britain’.
In the report, the TUC calls on Government to set out a minimum wage target of 75 per cent of median hourly pay, and a plan to deliver a return to normal pre-crisis wage growth, at a level equal to or above that wages between 1997 and 2010, which grew by an average of 3.8 per cent a year.
The current minimum wage for those 23 and over is £9.50, with lower rates for those who are younger.
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