Widening inequality, stagnant pay – Britain urgently needs Labour’s hard-won workers’ rights | Polly Toynbee
But still Kemi Badenoch and the business lobby want to take us backwards Britain is unhappier at work than since records began.
Key points
- Pay stagnation over the last decade is unprecedented since Napoleonic times, the economist Paul Johnson told me, but then corrected himself: “You might as well say ever.” Worse, over the last year pay inequality has jumped up for the first time in a decade, says the Resolution Foundation’s Mike Brewer.
- Pay for the top 10% rose by 7.3% but only by 1.1% for the bottom 10%.
People complain of a lack of flexibility in working hours, a lack of career advancement – and, of course, a lack of pay rises.
The British Social Attitudes survey, the nation’s long-running annual pulse-taker, finds growing job dissatisfaction in its report, published today.
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