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Chamber and committees

Wage Stagnation and Changing Employment

  • Submitted by: Pauline McNeill, Glasgow, Scottish Labour.
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
  • Motion reference: S5M-02958

That the Parliament notes with interest the reported comments by the Governor of the Bank of England that the decade of zero-wage growth that workers in the UK are experiencing is the worst since the 1860s and being exacerbated by jobs being relocated abroad due to globalisation and technological advances; understands that the bank’s Chief Executive has indicated that as many as half of today's jobs will be automated within the coming decades; considers that the Governor’s opinion, that the benefits of global trade need to be redistributed to address the increasing levels of inequality and reduce the levels of job insecurity that are being felt by millions of working people, is an important one that will become increasingly pertinent in the next few years as, it believes, wages stagnate and job insecurity and inequality increases, and believes that the key issues of creating the foundations for the jobs of the future, preparing people for the challenges in employment they will face while creating maximum opportunity for all to allow them to cope with the impact of new technology, should be at the heart of debate in order to reduce inequality.


Supported by: Jackie Baillie, Neil Findlay, Iain Gray, Jenny Marra, John Mason, Alex Rowley, Anas Sarwar, Andy Wightman