Push to end low pay may have to be scrapped, UK government warned
by Richard Partington Economics correspondent from Economics | The Guardian on (#51GAS)
Low Pay Commission says cost of fighting coronavirus pandemic endangers flagship pledge to raise national living wage to 10.50 an hour
The government has been warned it could be forced to abandon targets for ending low pay in Britain by raising the legal minimum wage, as the economic costs of Covid-19 mount.
The Low Pay Commission, the independent body which advises ministers on legal wage floors, said the government target to increase the national living wage to two-thirds of average earnings by 2024 could be in danger.
The national living wage is the minimum wage that must be paid to workers in the UK, and it came into effect on 1 April 2016.
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