Nursery World - All Childbase staff to benefit from National Living Wage

From this month, all nursery practitioners working for Childbase Partnership will be paid the National Living Wage, five months ahead of the Government deadline.

As well as introducing the mandatory National Living Wage (NLW) for workers aged 25 and over months before it is legally required to do so, Childbase, an employee-owned company, has taken the decision to pay all its staff working across its 46 settings, no matter their age, the increased rate of pay.

From April 2016, employers will be required by law to pay their workers aged 25 and above the National Living Wage of £7.20 per hour.

Childbase, which says the pay deal will be particularly beneficial to its 381 practitioners under 25 years old, is also increasing the wages of its modern apprentices by 6 per cent to £5.25 per hour. Currently Childbase has 34 modern apprentices, however the number is set to double in the next 12 months.

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