Alex’s mission

duced the Living Wage they experienceda25percentfallin absenteeism, with 80 per cent of employers believing that the Living Wage has enhanced the quality of work of their staff and 66 per cent reported a significant impact on recruitment and retention within their organisation. Low staff turnover can have additional benefits such as lower recruitment costs and increased productivity.

Our success as a national water retailer, which undertakes the Scottish Government contract to provide water billing and efficiency services to the majority of the public sector, depends on the skills, enthusiasm,ambitionanddedication of our employees.

Signinguptothelivingwage is not only the right thing to do, but marked an important milestone for us, boosting productivity and competitiveness through having a committed workforce.

We would urge other companies and organisations to sign up to the Living Wage and take advantage of the tremendous benefits this brings. TONY DONNELLY

Chairman Anglian Water Business Melville Street, Edinburgh Apparently,supportersofscottish independence were at the Usher Hall on Saturday. About 1600 turned up, according to reports, so it must have been rather echoey.

Alex Salmond, leader of the failedindependencecampaign in 2014, tried to convince the faithful that he has never seen thebritishstateweaker,except, of course, on any other occasion he has spoken about it.

Without considering the meltdown of his party’s fortunes at the general election, he is equally blind to the meltdown of the EU.

In Catalonia, around 2000 companies have already fled the region when they declared independence, just the way