From A Fairer Scotland for Disabled People Employment Action Plan – Progress Report, released today, we can see that Scotland has the smallest gap between median pay for the disabled and non-disabled.
This is not the result of median wages for the non-disabled in Scotland being particularly low as Scotland has the highest median pay outside of the South of England and London. [Link in comments below]
And, the above fits in with a wider pattern in Scotland which we can be proud of:
8% of the population yet 28% of the living -wage employers
https://news.gov.scot/news/1-000th-living-wage-employer
Only Scotland and Wales pay the living wage to all NHS employees and Scotland was first to pay the living wage to all public-sector employees. Recent consultation on taxation suggests that this group will also be protected from any tax increases.
Make the NHS a living wage employer says UNISON
Scottish care workers have been receiving the Living Wage of £8.45 per hour since October 2016 and will now [unlike in rUK] receive the same rate for all ‘sleepover hours worked. This will make a big difference to around 40 000 workers. Most are women.
London weighting doing folk no favours at all.
Wasn’t there someone semi famous who was mayor there.
ah YES, the ‘covid mighty slayer’ no less! 😀
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