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'Nearly half' of jobs in some areas do not pay living wage

Nearly half of jobs in some part of Britain are failing to pay the living wage, a leading trade union has warned. The TUC said figures showed between 20-50% of workers were not earning enough money to live off, depending on the constituency .

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South of England has 'most underpaid workers'

The three constituencies with the most workers earning less than the living wage are all in the south of England, according to figures from the TUC.

They are:

  • Kingswood, near Bristol has 48% of constituents working for less than the living wage.
  • London's Chingford and Woodford Green have 43.4% of constituents working for less than a liveable wage.
  • Harrow West had 42.4%.
  • However, other London constituencies had the lowest number of underpaid workers. In Poplar and Limehouse on 5.6% of the population earned less than £8.80 per hour.
  • Runneymede and Weybridge had only 5.8%.

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