This year’s Living Wage Scotland Awards took place on Thursday 17 November at the stunning Scotch Whisky Experience, a 5 star visitor attraction on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. A huge thank you to everyone for making this a night to remember. The event was hosted by the wonderful writer, broadcaster and comedian Susan Morrison and we … Read more
Borders businesses have come together to celebrate national Living Wage week (14-18 November) and to share their positive experiences of being Living Wage employers whilst encouraging other local businesses to do the same. Scottish Borders Council hosted a business breakfast on Wednesday 16 November at Inspire Learning: Tweedbank, to mark the important week by bringing … Read more
This Living Wage Week we want to celebrate our Hospitality & Tourism network and the ways in which Living Wage employers are investing in their staff teams and the wider community. The past few years have had a devastating impact on Scotland’s Hospitality & Tourism industry and employers have faced challenges including the pandemic, spiralling … Read more
NHS Lothian has become accredited as a Living Wage employer, making a formal commitment to paying their staff no less than a real Living Wage. The accreditation also means that staff in any companies NHS Lothian contracts cannot be paid less than the independently calculated Living Wage. The new Living Wage rate of £10.90 per … Read more
NHS Tayside has been accredited as a Living Wage employer and is sharing the news during Living Wage Week, which runs from 14th to 20th November 2022. This year, with prices rising at their highest rate in decades, the real Living Wage is more important than ever. All staff directly employed by NHS Tayside are … Read more
Doubling the amount of accredited real Living Wage employers in the city over the next three years is the target of an ambitious project to Make Aberdeen a Living Wage City. This Living Wage Week sees the launch of the project at the Community Planning Aberdeen Responsible Business event. An action plan has been … Read more
If just a quarter of Scotland’s low-paid workers were given a pay rise to the real Living Wage, it could provide an extra £114m boost to the economy. 221,000 thousand workers in Scotland currently earn below the real Living Wage The real Living Wage is £10.90 across the UK and is the only the wage … Read more
Quarriers is a leading Scottish health and social care charity dedicated to transforming the lives of people with support needs. In 2021, the organisation celebrated its 150th anniversary. In this blog, the Director of People and Technology, Alistair Dickson, explains why it is so important that social care providers continue to be funded to pay … Read more
Capital City Partnership is the anchor delivery body for Edinburgh’s employability strategy, working together to tackle inequality and poverty. Their key tasks are to advise, support and develop the city’s Jobs Strategy, and to contract, performance manage and improve outcomes from funded employability services. We recently spoke to Rona Hunter, Chief Executive Officer, who told us … Read more
Molke is a Scottish manufacturer and retailer of fun, non-wired underwear and swimwear. The idea for Molke began in 2016 with one woman, a desire for comfortable bras and a sewing machine in her kitchen. After drawing out the pattern with her kids’ colouring pens, Kirsty set to making a comfortable and colourful bra that … Read more