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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Sarah O'Connor
      Why don’t people leave bad jobs?

      Giving workers a bit more security might make the labour market more flexible, not less

      A man and a woman ponder as they look at a door marked ‘exit’
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Sarah O'Connor
      The minimum wage has passed the high inflation test

      It reduces pay inequality while employment doesn’t suffer — even if productivity is not boosted

      Three piles of gold coins against a background of blue block graph paper
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      LexUS society
      US incomes: American way of thrive triggers sticker shock Premium content

      Economic indicators suggest the country is more prosperous than 50 years ago but more Americans feel pessimistic

      A shopper carries an Insignia Roku TV television
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Big UK retailers named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage

      More than 200 companies fined total of £7mn for breaching rules that hit 63,000 workers

      A view of a branch of WH Smith in London
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      UK employment
      Why is the UK labour market so hot?

      Near-record wage growth and low unemployment are putting workers in a position of strength, data suggests

      Workers move about Canary Wharf
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      UK inflation
      Lidl pay boost underlines UK wage growth pressures

      Rising salaries could prolong the country’s bout of high inflation, warn economists

      Nighttime shot of Lidl supermarket
    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      UK employment
      UK needs higher standards for low-paid workers, says think-tank

      Resolution Foundation calls for increase in minimum wage and job protection to match global peers

      A worker clearing tables in a busy restaurant
    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      UK minimum wage to increase 9.7% in ‘real-terms pay boost’

      Low-paid workers will get a rise in April that is expected to exceed the rate of inflation

      Women work behind the bar of a pub
    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      Personal pensions
      Employers urged to boost UK staff pension pots

      Living Wage Foundation warns of future crisis affecting millions

      Pedestrians on their way to work near London’s King’s Cross
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      UK employment
      UK council workers’ pay offer adds to pressure on ministers

      About 1.5mn low-paid local government employees offered wage uplift worth more than 20% over two years

      Waste bins are collected by refuse collectors in Northampton, England
    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Oren Cass
      Ordinary Americans are counting the cost of thriving

      Economic data disguises just how hard it has become to sustain a middle-class lifestyle

      Homes in California, where an American man working the typical full-time job would need 73 weeks’ wages per year to support a middle-class lifestyle
    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      J Sainsbury PLC
      Sainsbury’s raises hourly pay to £11

      Move will cost retailer £185mn over course of a financial year

      A Sainsbury’s worker restocks empty shelves inside a supermarket in London
    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      Tim Harford answers your absurd hypothetical questions

      What would happen if tax wasn’t a thing and other burning queries

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Katherine Chapman
      Decent pay gives us healthy, productive workers

      The business case for better pay and secure hours is compelling — improved recruitment, retention, employee relations and reputational enhancement

      An employee in a warehouse looking at a gadget on his forearm
    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      UK employment
      Proportion of UK workers on low pay at lowest level since 1997

      ONS data reflect effect of sharp rises in minimum wage since 2016 but confirm stagnation in average earnings

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    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      UK employers urged to give workers early pay boost

      Highest-ever increase in voluntary ‘living wage’ brought forward because of cost of living crisis

      A street cleaner with his cart and bins on the waterfront area in Falmouth, Cornwall
    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Aldi
      Aldi increases warehouse staff pay by 9% in challenge to rivals

      Move comes as discounters and big grocers compete for distribution workers

      The interior of Aldi’s distribution centre in Bolton
    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
      Aldi
      Aldi raises UK store staff pay as living costs soar

      Second increase this year shows pressures facing supermarkets

      An Aldi checkout
    • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
      Low Pay Commission
      Leicester garment factories still exploiting staff, study finds

      Low Pay Commission urges UK government to do more to prevent abuses that continue despite clampdown

      Leicester city centre
    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      Where the Sainsbury’s pay defence doesn’t add up

      The supermarket’s generally laudable position on ‘colleague’ pay glosses over the lowest-paid workers

      People relax on benches outside Sainsbury’s London HQ
    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      EU employment
      EU agrees deal to ensure fair minimum wages for workers

      Framework to set adequate salaries will assess prices of household items and promote collective bargaining

      Commuters in Frankfurt, Germany, in May
    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      Lex
      J Sainsbury/wages: business case for higher wages weaker than moral one Premium content

      Supermarkets operating on razor-thin margins will note there is no hard evidence to show better pay improves productivity

      Sainsbury supermarket trolly handles bearing the supermarket logo
    • Monday, 30 May, 2022
      Management
      Cost of living crisis: employers step in to help

      Business leaders start to target more support towards lower-paid staff

      Nicola Ryan at One and All’s factory in Stockport, north-west England
    • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
      UK ‘living wage’ increase to be brought forward to September

      Foundation that sets pay level for low paid workers says move due to the ‘unprecedented’ rate at which prices are rising

    • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
      Sarah O'Connor
      Why a higher UK minimum wage fails to spur productivity

      A British experiment ended up with companies accepting lower profits, charging more or cutting investment

      An FT montage showing a down arrow over a pile of coins
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