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Felicia Scherrer, of the Living Wage Movement, discusses Dunedin becoming an accredited living wage council. (Video first published September 2019) CCHL is the majority shareholder in eight companies – including Lyttelton Port Company, Citycare, Christchurch International Airport and EcoCentral – but the living wage was expected to mostly affect Citycare and EcoCentral. In 2018, it was estimated about 130 employees across the CCHL group would be eligible for the living wage. It would only apply to direct employees, not contractors. Living Wage Aotearoa chairwoman Gina Lockyer said employers needed to think about their workers when promises were not kept. “When a council makes a decision or a commitment, it’s the low paid workers being impacted.”