it almost used to be that we were competing amongst other care homes for our care workers but suddenly, we are competing with amazon and the nhs and supermarkets in a way that we have never had to before. with the minimum wage up by 9.7% to £10.a2 an hour, supermarkets like tesco have been forced to boost pay beyond that to attract the new workers they need from a pool of available workers that s smaller than expected, partly because of record rates of long term sickness. and lidl has given three pay rises in a year to £13.15 an hour. that demand for people in health and care and many other industries continues. that s going to push up wages, and you have to think about, how does that work in concert with everything else that businesses have to afford right now, including rising energy prices, and the rising cost of living? wages are now rising faster than they have for two decades, especially in the private sector,
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