{"id":49718,"date":"2026-03-31T23:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/minimum-wage-rises-to-12-71-an-hour\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:14:25","slug":"minimum-wage-rises-to-12-71-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/minimum-wage-rises-to-12-71-an-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage rises to \u00a312.71 an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">But Spencer says his business is being squeezed from every angle \u2013 as well as minimum wage, he has had increases in business rates, national insurance, and statutory sick pay. He also expects energy bills to go up because of the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c36r7jk6093o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Spencer says his business is being squeezed from every angle \u2013 as well as minimum wage, he has had increases in business rates, national insurance, and statutory sick pay. He also expects energy bills to go up because of the war in the Middle East. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[233,6322,1287,2652],"class_list":["post-49718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-hour","tag-minimum","tag-rises","tag-wage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49720,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49718\/revisions\/49720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}