Earnings in the Hotel and Catering Industry in Great Britain

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Employment growth has not changed the low pay status of the hotel and catering industry. Additional labour requirements have been met mainly by recruiting women to part-time jobs, thereby avoiding the need to offer comparatively high rates of pay to attract workers displaced from manufacturing industries. Re-structuring the earnings composition has raised the significance of statutory minimum rates at the expense of other pay components, minimised the cost of implementing the Equal Pay Act, and restricted the rate of increase in men's earnings. Further savings result from the growing proportion of part-time employees with earnings below the threshold for contributions to the National Insurance scheme.

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