Decision details

The Cabinet to receive a progress report on the implications of the Living Wage in Lancashire.

A report was presented updating Cabinet on the Living Wage within Lancashire County Council and requesting approval for the annual uplift of the Living Wage to be applied to all centrally employed staff from 1 April 2015.

Having fulfilled all the criteria, as detailed in the full report, the County Council had become accredited as a Living Wage Employer, one of only two shire counties to be accredited, with the right to use the Living Wage Employer Mark.

Resolved: That,

(i)  The full  introduction of the Living Wage  for directly employed staff from 1 April 2014 as set out in the report, now presented, be noted;

(ii)  Successful accreditation of Lancashire County Council as a Living Wage Employer be noted;

(iii)  Full Council be requested to approve the annual uplift of the Living Wage for centrally employed staff, to be applied from 1 April 2015;

(iv)  The significant number of schools adopting the Council's approach to the Living Wage be noted; and

(v)  The wider application of the Living Wage to council contracts be reviewed on a case by case basis.