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'Economic storm' | Unemployment is falling, but so are wages

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Unemployment is falling, but so are wages

An expert has warned of an ‘economic storm’ ahead as UK employment dropped to a near-50 year low, at the same time that wages also suffered a massive fall.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s latest jobs market data showed that, when adjusted for inflation, earnings dropped by the highest margin in nine years.

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