Rochdale Online proud to celebrate Living Wage Week 2016

Living Wage Week Sunday 30 October to Saturday 5 November

Living Wage Week takes place each year during the first week of November. This year it runs from Sunday 30 October to Saturday 5 November.

Having become a Living Wage employer in Rochdale, and being one of a pioneering group of nearly 3,000 employers paying the real Living Wage, Rochdale Online will be increasing our hourly rate of pay in line with the Living Wage Foundation’s newly recommended rate as of the 1 May 2017.

The real Living Wage is independently calculated based on what employees and their families need to get by. 

Pauline Journeaux, Rochdale Online managing director, said: Come May 2017 our staff will receive an increase in their annual salary. This not only helps our employees afford to live with dignity but also helps our business by improving motivation, and retaining and attracting a quality workforce.

Katherine Chapman, Director of the Living Wage Foundation said: “Business by business and organisation by organisation our employers are voluntarily choosing to close the pay gap in the UK between what people need to live on and the government minimum that every employer has to pay.

"The increase in the real Living Wage will mean thousands of employees around the country will get a much needed increase to their pay packet to help them meet the cost of living. That’s the difference paying the real Living Wage makes. During Living Wage Week we celebrate the leadership of those great Living Wage employers who make this possible.”