23/02/2015
Responding to a question during a visit to the Diocese of Birmingham this morning, Archbishop Justin Welby said: 鈥淚t would be great if we were paying the Living Wage everywhere right away. But as the Archbishop of York said in his Living Wage Commission, we鈥檝e got to move towards it.
鈥淓very cathedral, every diocese, every parish in this country is an independent charity, with its own trustees that has to make its own decisions. We all recognise that no employer can simply increase its salaries overnight. . . We鈥檇 prefer to be there and we鈥檙e getting there as quickly as we can. We have to do it in a way that is responsible to all employees.鈥
Read a statement from the Church of England .
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