London living Wage

[swissmilk]

If your company raises pay to London Living Wage every year, do it go up in November or April?
The National Living Wage seems to go up every April.
I am trying to get to the bottom of a couple of years under-payment, but I can't work out whether the payment starts in Nov or that just when they announce if for the following April?

Sort for all the typos!

Ha! Sorry!

London Living Wage rates go up in November but accredited companies have until May to implement the raise.

The National Living Wage is separate - it’s the statutory minimum and like you say is increased in April.

(And National Living Wage-aligned pay rates, ie the statutory ones, must be increased immediately.)

So it's possible that both increases will be implemented in April and that's legal?

The NLW is a statutory increase and has to take effect in April.

The London Living Wage increase can take effect any time between November and May. It’s not a statutory rate though, so any flouting of the dates isn’t technically ‘illegal’ but the employer might lose their accreditation. (It gets confusing as the government started using the ‘living wage’ terminology when a non-statutory Living Wage was already in operation.)

The London Living Wage is comfortably above the NLW so I’d be surprised if the NLW uprating was relevant if you’re on the former?

Thanks a million @Ktay that's really helpful.