More than 140,000 Londoners will receive a 5.3% pay rise as the London Living Wage is increased.

The new rate of £13.85 an hour will "make a massive difference", says the Living Wage Foundation.

A survey finds 23% of London’s lowest-paid workers go to a food bank once a week and 28% once a year.

Northern Ireland lags behind other parts of the UK when it comes to employers paying the Real Living Wage.

The Scottish Labour leader was accused of hypocrisy after saying not all staff at the business received the rate.

Anas Sarwar has confirmed that all businesses, including his family's wholesale company, will have to pay a cost of living-linked minimum wage.

A rise in the voluntary living wage to £13.05 sees the gap to the minimum wage stretch to £1.60.

From 1 April, the National Living Wage has been extended to include those aged 21 and over.