The Resolution Foundation has published a briefing note looking at the UK’s 4.2 million low-paid workers on whom it argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed the greatest cost. It states that 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. In this paper they ‘set out a significant yet achievable programme of change across five areas that, taken together with a higher minimum wage, would amount to a new settlement for Britain’s low-paid workers’.
