Churches sign up for Living Wage

The Baptist and Methodist Churches have committed to pay a Living Wage to all their employees.

Living Wage

On Monday, the Baptist Assembly passed a resolution on care for church employees, calling for churches to consider carefully their employment practice in the light of Church Action on Poverty’s work highlighting the need for churches to work for social justice within their own communities.

For further information see www.baptistassembly.org.uk/information.asp?id=1382

The Methodist Conference in 2007 adopted CAP's Living Wage policy for all lay employees of the Methodist Church - though no one told us at the time!

"The Living Wage as recommended by Church Action on Poverty should form the minimum basic salary for people employed by a District, Circuit or Local Church. As from 1st October 2006 this is £6.80hr (outside London) or £7.25hr
(London) or £14,144/ £15,080 per annum, for a 40-hour week."

For the full policy see www.methodist.org.uk/downloads/conf07_30_Lay_workers_pc.doc

The United Reformed Church's assembly is also due to debate a Living Wage resolution in July.

A significant achievement for CAP!

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Church Action on Poverty is a national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the UK. It works in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves to find solutions to poverty, locally, nationally and globally.