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  • 25 Nov 2012
    Poor pay for part-time workers hits women especially

    A 36 per cent pay gap between part- and full-time workers is the main barrier to closing the gender pay gap and tackling in-work poverty, the government has been told.

  • 25 Nov 2011
    Pay gap fueling rising poverty

    Ekklesia is a co-signatory to a letter in the Guardian today (25 November 2011), along with five other churches and groups, regarding the growing pay gap.

  • 4 Jul 2011
    Call for businesses to disclose pay gap

    As the gap on pay and pensions widens, British business should disclose the ratio between their highest and lowest paid employees says a new report

  • 27 May 2011
    Pay incentive for rural ministry

    In England, the debate on stipends, remuneration and expenses for Anglican clergy serving the Established church continues - with a BBC radio investigation in the pipeline.The issues include pay justice, terms and conditions of work, investment decisions and use of financial resources.

    Meanwhile, in Scotland, the Presbyterian national church is looking towards giving newly qualified ministers a "lucrative bonus" to serve in remote rural parishes as their first charge, under plans from a Kirk council.

  • 29 Apr 2011
    Wedding watchers asked to back a Living Wage for low-paid royal cleaners

    Royal watchers have been asked by a trade union to support a campaign to give disgracefully low-paid cleaners in the Royal Household a living wage.

  • 25 Aug 2007
    Close the pay gap, survey says

    People in Britain think that Premiership footballers should be paid a lot less, and that those in service jobs at the bottom of the pay scale should get a good deal more, says a new survey for the Fabian Society.