Introduction of living wage to cost £387m per year – JRF

The National Living Wage (NLW) will affect at least 50% of care home workers when it is introduced in April 2016, according to new cost/benefit analysis from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).An estimated 300,000 people will benefit from the change in the law to set a minimum wage of £7.20 per hour for people aged…