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Five areas with highest concentration of low-paid jobs are all in London, report reveals

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The top five areas for low-paid jobs are all in London, a new report has found.

The latest study by the Living Wage Foundation (LWF) has found that five London boroughs are the country’s top-ranking local authority areas in terms of the proportion of jobs which do not pay a “real living wage”.

The LWF says that its real living wage rates “are the only UK wage rate to be independently calculated on the cost of living”. Every year it publishes a new rate for workers outside London

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