Sandra Osborne MP Slams SNP Living Wage Let Down
Sandra Osborne has accused local MSP Adam Ingram of being all talk and no action He was one of four SNP MSPs who voted down Labour’s proposal to pay the Living Wage to workers on public sector contracts – an amendment to the Procurement Reform Bill in the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee of the Scottish Parliament.
She said:
‘Paying the Living Wage will boost the earnings of a full time minimum wage worker by over £2000 a year. This would make a huge difference in the current cost of living crisis. Over 400,000 people in Scotland are working for less than the Living Wage of whom 36% are under 25 and 64% are women.
Adam Ingram has publicly supported the Living Wage in the past but when he had the chance to put words into action he failed to do so.
The SNP should explain why they are prepared to back a near £400,000 million tax cut to big business in the form of the SNPs proposed corporation tax cut but not to improve wages for working people in Scotland.
Labour intends to bring the amendment back at a later stage of the Procurement Bill and I am calling on Adam Ingram and all the other SNP MSPs to back it.”
Background Note:
The Living Wage is currently set at £7.45 an hour , and is due to rise to £7.65 in April.
Sandra Osborne has accused local MSP Adam Ingram of being all talk and no action He was one of four SNP MSPs who voted down Labour’s proposal to pay the Living Wage to workers on public sector contracts – an amendment to the Procurement Reform Bill in the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee of the Scottish Parliament.
She said:
‘Paying the Living Wage will boost the earnings of a full time minimum wage worker by over £2000 a year. This would make a huge difference in the current cost of living crisis. Over 400,000 people in Scotland are working for less than the Living Wage of whom 36% are under 25 and 64% are women.
Adam Ingram has publicly supported the Living Wage in the past but when he had the chance to put words into action he failed to do so.
The SNP should explain why they are prepared to back a near £400,000 million tax cut to big business in the form of the SNPs proposed corporation tax cut but not to improve wages for working people in Scotland.
Labour intends to bring the amendment back at a later stage of the Procurement Bill and I am calling on Adam Ingram and all the other SNP MSPs to back it.”
Background Note:
The Living Wage is currently set at £7.45 an hour , and is due to rise to £7.65 in April.