FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid delivers a statement at The Treasury in London, Britain, December 20, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson
(Reuters) – Britain will increase the National Living Wage, a mandatory minimum wage, by 6.2% to 8.72 pounds per hour from April, finance minister Sajid Javid said in an article for The Sun newspaper on Monday.
The wage increase will deliver an additional 930 pounds a year to a full-time worker, Javid said.
Reporting by Roshan Abraham in Bengaluru; Editing by Aditya Soni
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