Quarter of charity staff have had pay cuts, says Keep Britain Working
A survey by the Keep Britain Working campaign has found that 24% of charity and voluntary workers have had their pay cut since the recession began nine months ago.
The survey of 1,600 workers has also found that 20% have experienced a reduction in hours and 10% have lost benefits.
Overall, more than half of all UK workers (54%) have experienced a cut in pay, a reduction in hours or a loss of benefits since the recession began. Just last week Honda workers chose to accept pay cuts of 3% to avoid redundancies.
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Over the last nine months 27% of UK workers across all sectors surveyed have had their pay cut, 24% have had their hours reduced and 24% have lost benefits, according to the survey. While 37% of UK workers have experienced just one of these changes, 12% have experienced two of them and 5% have experienced all three.
James Reed, founder of the independent Keep Britain Working Campaign and CEO of recruitment company Reed, said: “The UK workforce has demonstrated unprecedented flexibility during this recession, allowing organisations to explore a whole range of cost-cutting responses other than relying solely on redundancies”.
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