{"id":125667,"date":"2019-12-31T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/31\/uk-minimum-wage-to-rise-by-four-times-rate-of-inflation\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:48:07","slug":"uk-minimum-wage-to-rise-by-four-times-rate-of-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=125667","title":{"rendered":"UK minimum wage to rise by four times rate of inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees over 25 will receive a 6.2% pay rise equating to \u00a3930 a year for full-time workerAlmost 3 million workers in Britain are to receive a pay rise of more than four times the rate of inflation from April, after the government said it would increase the official minimum wage.In an announcement designed to woo low-paid workers in the immediate aftermath of Boris Johnson\u2019s election victory earlier this month, the government said the national living wage for over-25s would increase from \u00a38.21 an hour to \u00a38.72 from the start of April. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/dec\/31\/boris-johnson-to-raise-minimum-wages-by-four-times-inflation\" target=\"_blank\">UK minimum wage to rise by four times rate of inflation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees over 25 will receive a 6.2% pay rise equating to \u00a3930 a year for full-time workerAlmost 3 million workers in Britain are to receive a pay rise of more than four times the rate of inflation from April, after the government said it would increase the official minimum wage.In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}