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THE CBI was criticised yesterday for “preposterous” claims that lower earners have done better than higher earners in terms of pay growth, writes Zoe Streatfield.
CBI Scotland gave evidence to the Scottish government’s economy committee claiming that “the last recession was the first where lower earners actually did better in terms of pay growth than higher earners, thanks to the wage continuing to rise.”
But Unite deputy Scottish secretary Mary Alexander poured scorn on the big business lobby group’s submission, saying that research had shown that “over half of working-age adults living in poverty are working poor.”
She pointed out that “executive pay levels have soared to an average of 183 times what the average worker across the UK earns.”
Green MSP Patrick Harvie, a member of the committee, said the CBI was “flat wrong.”
He said that “too many Scots work in jobs that still leave them in poverty, yet the CBI has a track record of lobbying for fat cats and has consistently failed to grasp the scale of inequality in today’s economy.”
