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Mintball, who did KPMG introduce it for? The Secretaries get alot more than the living wage and I suspect the postroom staff would too. The professional staff are way, way above it (even new recruits). Ditto Goldman Sachs!! In other words, those that have signed up are generally those who were paying it anyway. The exception being the public sector - and you know where they got their money from (and they are now paying with their jobs). All in all, a bit of a non-story.

Do those you mention do all their own cleaning, cooking etc?



If YOU had bothered to read the article, you may have come across this little snippet:



[iAlec Stevenson, 48, East London



Works 37.5 hours a week as a kitchen porter for KPMG, earning £8.35 an hour. He has been in catering for more than 15 years and remembers working 17-hour days to make ends meet.



"When I started working, I was paid £5.50 an hour and used to work from 7am until midnight. Having more than £2 extra an hour has motivated me and allowed me to rent a bigger room in a safer area."[/i

Oh for goodness sake, Coddy: you expect Dally to actually read things - never mind show a basic comprehension of what he might have read?

Sorry but I blame you for not linking to a Dally Wail story. You might have had to make it all up but it's not something that's stopped them in the past

Just because a company is rated "blue chip" among those who admire the large corporate headquarters and imagine that all is fine and dandy within their walls, it doesn't mean that they won't have a huge number of employees on minimum wages, or that they employ via a third party huge numbers on minimum wage - not every one who works in a blue chip accountants or lawyers is on six figure salaries, or even salaries at all.

So, about 5 people out of a a workforce of several thousands in the UK! As I said, inconsequential in cost terms to KPMG, Goldman Sachs, et al.

Where do you get "about 5" from?

Sarcasm. But, the reality is that numbers of such staff are very small in relation to overall numbers on the payroll.

The reality – and the point – is that a relatively small increase in pay to the lowest-paid employees makes a positive benefit to the business as well as to the employee/s.

I appreciate that may be the case in some instances, although I doubt whether the well-being of a few kitchen porters will have any discernible impact on the overall results of a major accountancy and consultancy business.



IMO the main reason KMPG, Goldman Sachs and certain banks will have signed up - is that the cost to them will be negligible and its cheap publicity and positive PR.

And possibly mitigating the chance of a disgruntled KP pis[is[/iing in the brown windsor