While the recent Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the security industry is a welcome step in the right direction, it falls very short of fundamentally changing the terms and conditions of workers or assisting with the cost of living crisis in any meaningful way. The increases are simply not enough for working people to get by and are a slap in the face for workers who have families and loved ones to care for.

The long-delayed ERO came into effect on the 4th of September. The primary improvements to the terms and conditions of security workers that it put into effect were as follows:

1. Rate of pay to be adjusted to be
   1. Rate of pay to be adjusted to be