'We've got a responsibility to look after our staff...It's about how we treat our people in the hard times.'
Domestic gas and electricity bills are going up in response to a big rise in wholesale gas prices
"The energy increase is concerning. Everybody is struggling now. I don't think you should work just to pay the bills. Life is hard. Anyway, it's only 14 staff not like 250,000." "Some of my staff are young, some mothers with children, one whose monthly energy bill had gone from like £100 to £300," says Mr Clayton. His firm is based in South Shields, Tyne and Wear.
At Glasgow-based tech firm Firefish Software, employee David Connolly and his colleagues have been given a pay rise of £600 per employee to help cover the increased cost of living.David Connolly says he had noticed that the cost of living had gone up "If the idea is to give the employee an extra £600 in their pockets, it could be arranged for this to be paid net via payroll," says Clare Bowen, director at accountants MHA Monahans.
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