Regular pay has seen the biggest plunge in more than 20 years when rising prices are taken into account, the Office for National Statistics has said
Public sector workers, many of whom have been voting to strike over below-inflation pay offers, saw their total pay go up just 1.5% - compared with 7.2% in the private sector.
In the private sector, regular pay without bonuses saw its biggest rise since the three months to last September - but falling bonuses saw total pay drop in recent months. "This is because the Conservatives have failed to grow the economy, which has left people more exposed to inflation and the cost-of-living crisis."The employment rate remains below pre-pandemic levels despite increasing by 0.4 percentage points to 75.9%.While the number of people neither working nor looking for a job is now falling, it remains well up on where it was before COVID-19 hit.
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