Football: Living Wage
(asked on 27th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has had discussions with Premier League football teams on paying the living wage to their employees.
This question was answered on 30th January 2020
The National Living Wage is the statutory minimum wage for those aged 25 and over, and the Government is committed to ensuring that everyone entitled to the National Living Wage receives it.
It is up to individual businesses to decide whether they would like to pay employees under the age of 25, the National Living Wage.