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What Labour’s first budget means for wages, taxes, business, the NHS and plans to grow the economy – experts explain

For the first time in 14 years, it was a Labour chancellor who delivered the UK budget. And for the first time ever, that chancellor was a woman. But Rachel Reeves faces an almighty task: plugging a £40 billion spending gap in the knowledge that pre-election promises not to raise…

The Conversation

Reeves goes after employers with young workers the clear winners

The minimum wage for 18 to 20-year-olds will rise 16 per cent to £10 as part of a plan to equalise the rate with older earners

The Independent UK

Small business owner considers selling firm amid minimum wage increase

Christina French, founder of an electrical contracting business, fears she will have to sell one of her businesses to make ends meet.

Evening Standard

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The Budget: Winners and losers

Who are the winners and losers from the Budget?

Evening Standard

Businesses fear impact of increased employer National Insurance contributions

National Minimum Wage increases and an increase in employer National Insurance contributions in the Autumn Budget may be the final nails in the…

The National (Scotland)

Budget reaction LIVE: Starmer and Reeves defend record tax-rises on hospital visit

Working families with a mortgage face risk of a double blow of higher rates and wage growth slump

Evening Standard

Reeves to promise ‘wealth and opportunity for all’ in major tax-raising budget

Having announced minimum wage boost, chancellor to say she can spare working people from tax rises

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Minimum wage to increase – but it still falls short of the Living Wage

THE minimum wage will rise to £12.21 an hour next year after the Chancellor confirmed a 6.7 per cent increase ahead of Wednesday’s Budget.

The National (Scotland)

Boost for hourly workers as minimum wage to increase by up to £2,500 a year

The National Living Wage will increase from £11.44 to £12.21 an hour from April 2025

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves hands low-paid a £1,400 boost as minimum wage to rise by 6.7%

The chancellor will increase the measure, also known as the national living wage, from £11.44 per hour to £12.21 from April

The Independent UK

Minimum wage to rise 6.7% as Chancellor plots path to ‘genuine living wage’

Wages will rise for 3.5 million workers, but the Low Pay Commission warned businesses were beginning to struggle with large increases.

Evening Standard

Reeves: Budget will end ‘neglect’ of NHS but turnaround will take time

The Chancellor is expected to pump billions of pounds into the health service.

Evening Standard

Boost for low-paid as minimum wage set to rise by 6% in Budget

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to announce the inflation-busting hike when she delivers her first financial statement

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves expected to raise national minimum wage by 6% in 2025

Above-inflation increase would give pay rise to more than 1 million low-paid workers

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Evening Standard

Budget will end NHS ‘neglect’ but improvement will take time, ministers warn

Rachel Reeves said the Budget alone may not be enough to turn the NHS around while Health Secretary Wes Streeting said ‘real change takes time’.

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Vice President Harris Criticizes Trump Over Minimum Wage Stance

Vice President Kamala Harris advocates for raising the federal minimum wage to support working Americans and their families, contrasting her stance with fo...

Salon

The hypocrisy of Trump's McDonald's gig

The former president calls working at McDonald's "beautiful" while undermining workers’ rights

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The Independent UK

Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decide

Voters in Arizona and Massachusetts are set to decide whether employers should be able to continue to pay tipped workers such as servers and bartenders a lower minimum wage than non-tipped workers

Capital & Main

Raising California’s Minimum Wage Has Not Cost Jobs

Ahead of a ballot measure to add $2 to the hourly minimum wage, studies show fast food jobs increased after the state bumped hourly pay to $20 in that sector.

The Guardian - UK

From the ‘cliff edge’ to the DWP: what will UK carer’s allowance review look at?

Review called after revelation that thousands of unpaid carers have been forced to repay accidental overpayments

The Independent UK

California health care workers get a pay bump under a new minimum wage law

Some of the lowest-paid health care workers in California are getting a pay bump under a state law

The Independent UK

Should California's minimum wage be $18? Voters will soon decide

Voters will decide whether California should raise its minimum wage to $18 an hour, which would put it at the highest in the United States

The Guardian - UK

New UK laws to stop repeat of P&O mass sackings scandal go before parliament

Labour clamps down on poor working conditions at sea with laws on collective dismissal and minimum wage on cross-Channel ferries

Salon

Self-service kiosks and us

The technology, long vilified, has largely reassigned human jobs within the retail and restaurant spaces

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