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The City Corporation has paid the London Living Wage since 2014
The City Corporation has paid the London Living Wage since 2014 Photo: Ben Phillips

The City of London Corporation is throwing its weight behind a new campaign to encourage more financial services companies to pay their cleaners and security guards fairly.

The authority is stumping up the money for a two-week ad campaign, to be run across several of London’s busiest Tube stations, aimed at getting banks and financial-services employers to pay the London living wage.

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