A new settlement for the low paid : beyond the minimum wage to dignity and respect
"This crisis is shared, but its burden is not. From health risks to job losses, it is the UK's 4.2 million low-paid workers on whom this pandemic has imposed the greatest cost, and of whom the efforts to combat it have required the greatest sacrifice. Lower earners are three times as likely to have lost their job or been furloughed as high earners, and are more than twice as likely to do jobs exposing them to health risks..."
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