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Are you aware that the Englishh football clubs you avidly support pay
slave wages to their employees despite making millions every single
day and paying the players more than a million each in the top league?
Can you imagine such a thing happening in this day and age? That a
sport that rakes in billions does not pay a majority of its workers a
living wage?
I hope you will review your blind support for English football.. You
should not be supporting open slave trade in this day and age.
Bobby
Everton to pay staff living wage
Premier League club becomes latest of only five clubs, including
Chelsea, to win accreditation by Living Wage Foundation
Over the next three years, Everton have pledged to give more than 700
contractors a pay rise of up to £2,000 a year. Photograph: Carl
Recine/Reuters
Sarah Butler
@whatbutlersaw
Monday 31 October 2016 07.33 GMT Last modified on Monday 31 October
2016 12.17 GMT
Everton has become the second Premier League club to pledge to pay all
its staff at least the independently calculated living wage.
The Liverpool-based football club is being accredited by the Living
Wage Foundation as the body prepares to announce this year's minimum
pay rate - which is based on a calculation of the amount employees and
their families need to live.
Everton joins Chelsea, the London club owned by Russian billionaire
Roman Abramovich, which is the only other Premier League club to pay
all its workers, including contractors and agency staff, at least the
living wage.
Famous footballers may earn millions of pounds a year, but clubs have
been criticised for paying backroom staff, particularly contractors
who can make up the majority of those working on matchdays, little
more than the legally required minimum.
Only five football clubs – including Luton Town, Derby County and
Heart of Midlothian – are fully accredited by the LWF, ensuring that
all staff and agency workers have earned at least £9.40 an hour in
London and £8.25 outside the capital.
Ahead of accreditation by the LWF, Everton has handed 250 casual and
match-day staff a pay rise taking them to the living wage. Over the
next three years, it has also pledged to ensure that more than 700
contractors working for the club will receive a pay rise amounting to
as much as £2,000 a year.
Prof Denise Barrett-Baxendale, Everton's deputy chief executive and
director, said: "It is extremely important to us that we treat all of
our colleagues well and reward people fairly in terms of their pay.
Supporting the accredited living wage is quite simply the right thing
to do; it improves our employees' quality of life but also benefits
our business and society as a whole."
Katherine Chapman, the director of the Living Wage Foundation,
welcomed the accreditation, saying: "It is fantastic that Everton have
become the second Premier League football club to sign up as a living
wage employer, ensuring that all their staff – from caterers to match
day staff – receive a real living wage that covers the cost of living.
"I hope other football clubs will take their lead and follow suit."
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Are you aware that the Englishh football clubs you avidly support pay
slave wages to their employees despite making millions every single
day and paying the players more than a million each in the top league?
Can you imagine such a thing happening in this day and age? That a
sport that rakes in billions does not pay a majority of its workers a
living wage?
I hope you will review your blind support for English football.. You
should not be supporting open slave trade in this day and age.
Bobby
Everton to pay staff living wage
Premier League club becomes latest of only five clubs, including
Chelsea, to win accreditation by Living Wage Foundation
Over the next three years, Everton have pledged to give more than 700
contractors a pay rise of up to £2,000 a year. Photograph: Carl
Recine/Reuters
Sarah Butler
@whatbutlersaw
Monday 31 October 2016 07.33 GMT Last modified on Monday 31 October
2016 12.17 GMT
Everton has become the second Premier League club to pledge to pay all
its staff at least the independently calculated living wage.
The Liverpool-based football club is being accredited by the Living
Wage Foundation as the body prepares to announce this year's minimum
pay rate - which is based on a calculation of the amount employees and
their families need to live.
Everton joins Chelsea, the London club owned by Russian billionaire
Roman Abramovich, which is the only other Premier League club to pay
all its workers, including contractors and agency staff, at least the
living wage.
Famous footballers may earn millions of pounds a year, but clubs have
been criticised for paying backroom staff, particularly contractors
who can make up the majority of those working on matchdays, little
more than the legally required minimum.
Only five football clubs – including Luton Town, Derby County and
Heart of Midlothian – are fully accredited by the LWF, ensuring that
all staff and agency workers have earned at least £9.40 an hour in
London and £8.25 outside the capital.
Ahead of accreditation by the LWF, Everton has handed 250 casual and
match-day staff a pay rise taking them to the living wage. Over the
next three years, it has also pledged to ensure that more than 700
contractors working for the club will receive a pay rise amounting to
as much as £2,000 a year.
Prof Denise Barrett-Baxendale, Everton's deputy chief executive and
director, said: "It is extremely important to us that we treat all of
our colleagues well and reward people fairly in terms of their pay.
Supporting the accredited living wage is quite simply the right thing
to do; it improves our employees' quality of life but also benefits
our business and society as a whole."
Katherine Chapman, the director of the Living Wage Foundation,
welcomed the accreditation, saying: "It is fantastic that Everton have
become the second Premier League football club to sign up as a living
wage employer, ensuring that all their staff – from caterers to match
day staff – receive a real living wage that covers the cost of living.
"I hope other football clubs will take their lead and follow suit."
--
Disclaimer:Everyone posting to this Forum bears the sole responsibility for any legal consequences of his or her postings, and hence statements and facts must be presented responsibly. Your continued membership signifies that you agree to this disclaimer and pledge to abide by our Rules and Guidelines.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
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