18 July 2013
The wages of thousands of Whitehall cleaners were revealed today in a low-pay “league of shame”.
The environment department came bottom of the list, paying the minimum wage of £6.19 an hour, then came the health department on £6.32 and the business department on £6.46.
Cleaners delivered buckets and mops to the worst offending departments as they stepped up their campaign for a pay-rise.
The contract staff, supported by campaign group London Citizens, have already written to ministers asking to be paid the London Living Wage of £8.55 an hour. No 10, the Supreme Court and the Department of Work and Pensions are top of the league, having already signed up to the scheme to help their lowest-paid workers.
