The Latest Breaking News from Minimum Wage

Regional variations mean that a raise in minimum wage would impact more full-time workers in some regions of the UK than others

Business Council of Australia also calls for migrant intake boost as Greens set up Senate standoff to raise wages in female-dominated industries

One union has called for the minimum wage to be increased across the country

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is calling for the the minimum wage to increase to £15 as regular pay has only increased 4.7 per cent while the rate of inflation hit 10.1 per cent.

Trade union bosses have called on the Government to draw up plans to give families 'long-term financial security'

Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted in favour of an all-out, indefinite strike after years of declining pay. This industrial action will begin in the first week of September and escalates existing instances of withdrawn labour in relation to cases funded by criminal legal aid.

TUC calls for rate raise ‘as soon as possible’

The current minimum wage for workers aged 23 and over is £9.50

TUC boss Frances O'Grady warned that millions of low-paid workers 'live wage packet to wage packet' and they are now being 'pushed to the brink by eye-watering bills and soaring prices'