living wage Archives - Corporate Welfare Watch

October 13, 2025

Many employers in the UK are not paying the legal living wage and the government is looking at ways to enforce their compliance.

Director of Labour Market Enforcement Says UK Needs Stricter Enforcement of Living Wage

July 29, 2017

Sir David Metcalf, director of labour market enforcement, has said that many UK companies are violating the living wage law by underpaying their employees and that the government must implement stricter enforcement and harsher penalties […]

The connections between tax credits, wage rates and corporate taxes…

March 29, 2016

Corporate welfare should be viewed in-the-round One of the criticisms made of The British Corporate Welfare State was that wage subsidies do not function as corporate welfare. The evidence on the effects of wage subsidies is, […]