The Living Wage Foundation has said as many as 1.2 million people working for the NHS, councils and other public sector employers receive unsustainably low wages of less than £9 an hour, or £10.55 in London.
Professor Taylor-Gooby, Research Professor of Social Policy, comments: ‘It is clear 1.2 million public sector workers receive wages so low that they are in poverty even after a full week’s work. Official statistics show that just over two thirds of those below the poverty line live in households where at least one person is in work’.
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