London Living Wage

We’ve Been Shortlisted for a Living Wage Champion Award!

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We’re delighted to be shortlisted for a Champion Award by the Living Wage Foundation.

This award celebrates those that have made an outstanding contribution to the movement for fairer pay over the past year. We’re passionate about the work The Living Wage Foundation does and believe that ‘a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay’.

The Living Wage Foundation is at the heart of the campaign for fair pay for all workers. We choose to pay a wage that reflects the true cost of living and strive to be a responsible employer.

Stepping Up to Pay a Fair Wage

In September 2022, The Living Wage Foundation announced the new wage rates for 2022-2023. These reflect the hourly rate that working people need to afford a minimum ‘decent’ standard of living. We welcome this increase, knowing how much it impacts not only our colleagues’ finances, but also their well-being.

With caring and sustainability at the core of our values, we recognise the importance of paying a sustainable wage to all employees. At Regular Cleaning, we’re so proud of our achievements in moving to the new improved rates.

The National Football Museum in Manchester will house the awards ceremony on 6th July 2023. We can’t wait to attend and celebrate the organisations that join us in welcoming fair wages for employees.

Opening with a speech from Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, we’re looking forward to an evening that recognises the work of this amazing organisation and the individuals that have gone above and beyond to help the movement to grow.

With a record number of submissions this year, we consider the nomination an incredible achievement in itself. We’re over the moon to be up for an award in the Recognised Service Provider Category and can’t wait to hear the results.

Putting People First: a real living wage

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The Real Wage movement began in 2001 when the East London Community Organisation (now part of the community organising network Citizens UK) brought together churches, mosques, schools and other local institutions to talk about the issues affecting their communities. Low pay repeatedly came up in their meetings as issue affecting people’s lives and impacting on their wellbeing.

The London Living Wage is the hourly rate working people need to afford a minimum ‘decent’ standard of living. It is the only rate which reflects the higher cost of living in London, being based on the cost of essential household goods and services and goes beyond the Government’s statutory National Living Wage.

As a service provider operating in the Facilities Management industry, we also recognise that ‘low pay’ is not a sustainable way to operate and that if we are able to provide a fair days pay for a fair days work, then we put our colleagues in a better position to provide great experiences to our customers.

We’re proud to be a Recognised Service Provider of the Living Wage Foundation and welcome their newly announced increase of the real London Living Wage to £11.95, along with the increase of the UK wide wage rate.

We are advocates of the real living wage and in the last 5 years have more than trebled the number of colleagues enjoying the London Living Wage, particularly through client engagement.

For us, this means:

The paying of the Real Living Wage is a company KPI where annual objectives are set with regards to the paying of the Real Living Wage as part of our Sustainable Business Strategy;

We will always pay at or above the real London Living Wage for all Field Based Management and Head Office based colleagues as an absolute minimum;

We always offer a Living Wage bid in every market rate proposal we submit to prospective and current clients, and we’re proud to say that 85% of our colleagues now benefit from being paid at or above the London Living Wage.

Wellbeing forms part of one of the four core pillars of our ‘Better Places’ sustainable business strategy. We’ve called this ‘Putting People First’ and along with action on diversity, inclusion, training, development and other aspects of welfare it shapes the culture of our business and the way we operate.

The benefits of paying the Real Living Wage could be seen as being solely economic including increased productivity and take home pay. However, we choose to focus on the impact this has on the welfare of our colleagues. We share with our clients the ‘real life’ stories of our colleagues who share their experience of the difference the real living wage has made to their lives and wellbeing.