living wage

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Caritas Jersey CEO, Patrick Lynch, said the living wage was the minimum islanders needed "in order to thrive, and not just survive here in Jersey".

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The strategy aims to ensure all childcare staff are paid at least the real living wage - a voluntary pay rate set by the Living Wage Foundation.

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Reeves also announced increases in the minimum and living wage, but Lyons said: "Costs are passed onto others."

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However, the 20-year-old added: "It's good that it is going up slightly, but it should go up more. I don't think it is a living wage compared to the cost of living - it doesn't match."

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Some in the business community will interpret this as possibly heralding another higher-than-inflation rise in the national living wage, which also tends to push up other salaries in a firm's wage structure.

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