The Scottish Agricultural Wages Board is an autonomous body comprising 17 members.

BBC: Farm workers in line for pay rise

The proposed pay rates were agreed by the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board.

BBC: Farm workers in line for pay rise

The wages board's proposals will be advertised over the next week and written representations on the rates must be sent to the board by 10 June.

BBC: Farm workers in line for pay rise

There are several amendments in play on issues like liability of employers after industrial accident, regulation of lettings agents and against the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board, where Tory icon Lady Trumpington has signed an amendment along with Labour's Lord Whitty and the Bishop of Hereford.

BBC: Week ahead

Yet despite the recent rise in wages across the board, and despite the massive rise in federal assistance, many poor single wage-earners have still not been able to lift their families out of poverty.

ECONOMIST: Out of sight, out of mind

His promise of a 20% across-the-board rise in public-sector wages may not sound a pinchpenny start, but it could prove one if no more is added later: 20% is the government's forecast of this year's inflation, and many analysts expect it to be higher.

ECONOMIST: Venezuela

Forget, too, that real wages have risen across the board, and that incomes are less unequal than in most other transition economies.

ECONOMIST: One more push

This comes after 20% cuts across the board in the public sector, with matching reductions in wages.

ECONOMIST: Portugal and the euro

Research I've done with William Wascher of the Federal Reserve Board and Mark Schweitzer of the Cleveland Fed indicates that minimum wages increase poverty.

WSJ: Delay the Minimum-Wage Hike

Manager Liam Daish, the Fleet board and the club's accountant revealed that the pair take up almost half the annual budget in wages.

BBC: York's Fleet deal falls through