The Resolution Foundation's 'Low Pay Britain' report says that little progress has been made in reducing the prevalence of low pay across the country, with 5.5 million people on low pay, around the same level as 20 years ago.
It found that the number of employees paid less than the living wage has increased by 20 per cent on last year.
The Resolution Foundation says that childcarers are particularly likely to be hit by low pay as there are relatively high numbers of women and young people in the early years workforce.
The gender bias nationally means 26 per cent of women are low paid as opposed to 17 per cent of men. However, a ‘wage squeeze’ experienced since 2002 and worsened by the recession has hit men harder, with a drop of 11 per cent in average pay compared with eight per cent for women.
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