Jobs and work

Fact checks related to the employment rate, unemployment, pensions and the gender pay gap

30 May 2018

Are pay packets growing?

Wages are lower than they were ten years ago, but on some measures have risen since last year.

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21 May 2018

What’s happened to employment since the vote to leave the EU?

Employment is up, unemployment is down and there are more people from outside the UK in work than before the Brexit vote.

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11 May 2018

Is youth unemployment down 40%?

The number of unemployed 16-24 year olds has fallen by 43% between 2010 and 2018.

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4 May 2018

Student ‘debts’ aren’t really debts

Politicians were accused of misrepresenting students’ finance options - so how does it work?

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19 April 2018

Who gets more, pensioners or refugees?

This viral image claims that pensioners can collect just a fifth of what ‘illegal immigrants’ and refugees can. But how much can each group really get?

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11 April 2018

Are taxpayers paying less income tax than in 2010?

The typical taxpayer will pay £850 less tax in income tax 2018/19 compared to 2010/11, once inflation is included, due to increases in the personal allowance.

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6 April 2018

Gender pay gap: what do the new figures tell us?

78% of 10,000 UK employers, most with over 250 staff, have a gender pay gap. The median hourly wage gap for these employers is around 10%.

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9 March 2018

11% of UK engineers are women

There are an estimated 48,000 women working in engineering professions compared to 400,000 men.

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9 March 2018

32,000 people work in the British steel industry

32,000 people worked in steel in 2016. More than half of these jobs are in Wales, and Yorkshire and Humber.

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9 February 2018

People who look after people tend to be women on low pay

More women work in occupations that tend to offer lower salaries such as administration and caring.

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