The Real Living Wage in the Private Sector

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 28 November 2018.

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Photo of Leanne Wood Leanne Wood Plaid Cymru 2:00, 28 November 2018

Of course, Cabinet Secretary, you have a great role in terms of what the public sector does. The airport that this Government bought five years ago is still paying people below the real living wage. We're talking about 100 or so security staff who have a great deal of responsibility if they are to do their job diligently. Are you embarrassed by the fact that these staff are not set to get the real living wage until April 2019—six years after the airport was bought by your Labour Government? And, can you guarantee that when this pay lift is belatedly brought in, Cardiff Airport will be certified by the Living Wage Foundation? Further to that, when will you be in a position to announce that all workers under the remit of this Assembly—those directly employed, those contracted out, those working for Assembly-sponsored public bodies—are earning the real living wage?