• National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage increases will put more money in the pockets of 2,600 of the lowest paid workers in Carmarthenshire.
• The UK Labour Government is raising wages for up to 150,000 people in Wales, boosting living standards and kickstarting growth.
• Real-terms pay rise will boost wages by £1,400 per year for an eligible full-time worker, while the apprentice rate goes up by 18%.
• For 18-20 year olds it will mean up to £2,500 a year more.
Workers across Wales, including around 2,600 across Carmarthenshire, have received a pay rise today as the new National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates take effect.
Action from the UK Labour Government means full-time workers on the National Living Wage will see a real-terms pay increase of £1,400 per year, helping to provide families with better financial stability, improve living standards and kickstart growth.
This uplift will deliver security for working people and ease the pressure on their day-to-day finances. It also allows for further workers to potentially benefit from positive spill-over impacts including possible wage increases for those already earning more than the legal minimum.
This year is also the first year where the Low Pay Commission, the body which recommends wage rates, was instructed to include the cost of living and inflation in its assessment.
On top of this, the Employment Rights Bill, a key pillar in the Plan to Make Work Pay, will release an additional £600 a year to some of the lowest paid workers. This will ensure that these workers receive an uplift to wages that delivers better quality of life.
Dame Nia Griffith, MP for Llanelli, said:
“I am proud to be part of a UK Labour government which will raise wages for approximately 2,600 people across Carmarthenshire, which include many in my own constituency Llanelli.
“I have been backing the Labour UK government’s plans to increase wages and give more people in Wales the opportunity of better paid, secure work and today will see many of the lowest paid workers benefitting from a well-deserved increase in pay.
“For someone in Llanelli working full time on the National Living Wage, these changes mean a £1,400 pay rise. For local apprentices, it will mean a pay rise of 18%, a real vote of confidence in the next generation of workers too.”
Big deal! Be swallowed up by paying extra tax national insurance, gas, electric, water food
Whilst taking away disability benefits to many vulnerable people. And failing to listen to the people.
Give it with one hand, and take away double with the other
All a load of crap rob Peter to pay Paul
Lying beaut labour 🙄 can do one who ever voted for them I have no words 🤔
Labour haven’t given anything they are just increasing the cost for all small businesses
It’s the struggling business that are paying ,not labour. They are just there to take the extra tax off you
Jesus Christ the sight of that Scarecrow just brought a bit of sick up 🤢
Reform is kicking their buck’s
and taken double off them. should be ashamed of yourselves.
Why are still trying to lie to population, you obviously truly believe we are all halfwits, labour has given the British population NOTHING,you have penalised all the employers into paying more national insurance and pay rises for there staff, this labour party is intent on making every British person poorer 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
The biggest Fake in Welsh politics.
Lying toe rags, taking pensioners heating allowances, higher council taxes wasting money on Speed limits 18 more Muppets in the Welsh government and giving yourselves a pay rise and having the cheek for us to pay your heating and allowances. Your screwing, the Welsh people left right and centre we’d all be better off going to France hiring dinghy’s and sailing back as migrants you’d give us everything without hesitation. 🤬
Let’s stop MPs expenses, that’s what their wages are for, nobody else gets all their bills paid for them and keep their wages as savings. Absolutely scandalous
She’s not bragging about the pensioners winter fuel allowance and disabled cuts