Above-inflation increases to the lowest wages are increasing the risk that workers will be replaced by machines as employers look to cut costs, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned on Thursday.
The National Living Wage, which came into effect in April 2016, promised to raise the statutory wage floor over the following five years to reach 60% of average earnings by the end of the decade, and it is set to rise to £7.83 in April.
If forecasts released by the Office for Budget Responsibility are correct, the figure will be £8.56 by 2020, according to the IFS , meaning […]
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