National minium wage

[B0yMama2]

When I started my job 4 years ago I was on about a £1 more than the national living wage. For context I work in hospitality and have alot of experience within the industry and if it wasn't for working part time I would have been promoted to supervisor but the company only allow full time supervisor roles which I do not want. I have previously been offered supervisor if I was willing to go full time but I have 2 young children nursery age so was a no from me

This morning I get a email stating my new wage with the living wage increase is just 11p more than the national minimum wage

At about 2 years into the company I got a 50p pay rise as they recognised my hard work but then I went on maternity leave and come back with everyone's wages increased with the minimum wage and I was back to on the same as the standard rate they paid for the job

Just a bit annoying and I don't know how to word how I don't feel appreciated for my long service within the company along with dedication and hard work with the email of my new wage this morning. I've never argued a pay before.

That’s a fair point if you are only interested in the difference in pay, but aren’t annual across the board pay raises are more about inflation and in that case the differential should be allowed to grow.

That’s still eroding the differential though, surely? With a minimum wage of £7.50 a £1.02 differential is almost 14%. At an £11.42 minimum wage it’s only 9%. By the time the minimum wage is £15 it'll be less than 7%

the differential of 50pph is my first comment.

the second comment refers to everybody gets the same hourly increase regardless of how much they are already on, not a differential. They get the same increase per hour of pay.

If they were currently on £7.49 an hour and the NMW for their group rose to £8.60 per hour then their increase is £1.11 per hour.

The increase varies for each NMW hourly rate, it's not £1.02 for everyone

The ideal would be everyone gets the same percentage increase. But we know the world hates senior management so they get the smallest increase. What is now happening is we are seeing an ever larger number or senior managers becoming bitter and leaving their jobs resulting in poor leadership in many large organisations (NHS being one).

This thread is a very good counter argument to having a NMW.