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Levelling up? If anything, things are getting worse for the lowest paid in the UK
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This should be the moment: it’s the best chance in years for a shot at the “high wage, high skill economy” that Boris Johnson promised. The ratio of job vacancies to unemployed people is at its highest since the 1960s, meaning employers are in theory competing for workers rather than the other way around. If not now, when?
Wherever you go, spot the “staff wanted” signs in shops, care agencies, minicab offices, cafes, hairdressers, on the back of buses and vans. At last, is the boot on the worker’s foot – a deserved reward for pandemic heroism?
There’s scant sign of it. The Bank of England says actual pay has risen about 3%, while the City expects Wednesday’s Office for National Statistics inflation rate to hit 4%. Highly skilled workers may
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