- Tuesday, 8 September 2009Britain's lower paid workers could be more likely to enter in to an
individual voluntary agreement (IVA), with a report indicating the demographic has been harder hit by the recession.
A report from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) highlighted figures from Jobseekers Allowance Claims by Occupation, which showed that the hardest hit jobs in the months of June and July were generally poorer paid.
The listed jobs included retail and sales assistants, goods handlers and storage workers.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "These figures explode the myth that this is some kind of classless - or even middle-class - recession. It's the low-skilled and the low-paid who are bearing the brunt of this recession.
"And with unemployment set to increase throughout the whole of next year, and possibly beyond, tackling joblessness must be government's number one priority."
Earlier this year, the Office for National Statistics reported that nationwide unemployment had risen to 2.4 million.
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