Inverness Cathedral is the latest Highland organisation to confirm that it is committed to paying staff the Real Living Wage
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Inverness Cathedral is the latest organisation to confirm that it is committed to paying staff the Real Living Wage.
It follows news that Inverness-based Cru Holdings was the first hospitality group in the Inverness area to make the same commitment.
Kerry Kendell, the Kenneth Street cathedral’s office manager and events co-ordinator, said the Vestry had taken the decision to become a living wage employer at a meeting in January 2018 and the salary increases were backdated to the beginning of that year.
She said: “At the annual meeting in January 2020 our provost reported that we were then a Real Living Wage employer which pays above the statutory Living Wage. We are accredited as such on the Living Wage Scotland website.”
Ms Kendell said they had taken the decision because they felt it was just and right that an organisation such as theirs should support employees as much as they could, adding: “It would be unjust and wrong if we didn’t.”
There are eight members of staff currently benefitting from it.
Cathedral provost Sarah Murray said: “All of our staff currently employed have come to us already at the Real Living Wage, although the staff who were with us when we introduced the Real Living Wage were delighted to see a real increase in their wages and salaries.
“Continuing to pay the Real Living Wage means that there is a guaranteed increase in hourly rate each year as the Real Living Wage is announced annually. Paying the Real Living Wage affirms the Christian values inherent in the concept of the Real Living Wage.”
• To find out more about the Real Living Wage, visit here.
