Miliband announces plans to raise minimum wage level

Labour leader Ed Miliband

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Labour leader Ed MilibandLabour leader Ed Miliband has announced to tackle the low pay through ensuring to raise the minimum wage more than average earnings if the Labour party get elected after the next general election.

An exact figure of the rise in the minimum wage level will be announced – covering the years 2015 to 2020 – nearer the general election.

While addressing at the launch of Alan Buckle’s independent Report on Low Pay in Walsall, Mr Miliband has said it was a “scandal” that there were five million people in work who “can’t make ends meet”, as the report indicates that the number of workers on low pay now stands at 5.2 million – one in five of all workers and one in three of women at work – up from 4.8 million in 2012 and 3.4 million in 2009.

Mr Miliband has stated: “A Labour government will establish a clear link between the level of the minimum wage and the scale of wages paid to other workers in our economy. We will say workers on the minimum wage must never be left behind because those who work hard to create our nation’s wealth should share in it.

“This mission to tackle low pay will be in England, Wales, Northern Ireland – and Scotland too – because social justice is best achieved by working together rather than competing against each other in a race to the bottom on wages, tax rates and aspirations for our country.”

Both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have already has already indicated their willingness for a rise in the minimum wage.

However, the business leaders have warned against political interference in the work of the Low Pay Commission (LPC), which makes recommendations regarding an overhaul on the level of the minimum wage.

The British Chambers of Commerce has expressed their concerns that there was a “clear risk that ahead of next year’s general election, politicking around the minimum wage by all three major parties could lead to unaffordable promises that cost jobs and growth”.

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