The Anglican Diocese of Southwark has received accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation as a Living Wage employer.
This means that everyone who regularly works in the diocesan offices in Chapel Court off Borough High Street receives at least the London Living Wage of £9.15 per hour.
“The Diocese of Southwark is proud to join more than 1,000 employers nationwide who are determined to help people earn enough to provide their family with the essentials of life by paying the Living Wage, which more accurately reflects the real cost of living,” said diocesan secretary Simon Parton.
Nuts. Why not make it 30 a day. Or, let’s be bold and make it 50 a day.
Why is the Anglican Communion so obsessed with minimum wage? I don’t care what country does what about minimum wage, but all I ever see is some bishop or another moaning about minimum wage. If they really cared they would encourage tax and welfare policies that made minimum wage a starter wage only, not the new norm for the former middle class.
I don’t have a problem if Dio. Southwark wants to pay its employees more, or it wants to recycle its garbage, or many other good things.
I just hope they fulfil their primary mission of preaching the gospel. If they don’t, then they are just one of thousands of community-minded companies.