Everton football club, Liverpool Council, and Liverpool John Moores University are all employers who have signed onto a campaign aiming to improve working conditions in the Liverpool city region.
The Fair Employment Charter was launched earlier this year by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram with employers who sign up bound to certain commitments such as trade union engagement, getting rid of zero hours contracts, improving diversity, and paying the real living wage of £10.90 an hour.
57 companies have signed onto the scheme with a further 85 in talks and Mayor Rotheram saying the number of employees impacted already was “in the hundreds if not thousands.” Currently a quarter of the workforce in the city region are paid below the real living wage.
