Abstract

Survey reveals shockingly low levels of pay and rising tensions as junior legal workers organise

Highlights

  • Paralegals, law students, and pupils are often expected to work for free or on minimum wages, and can be exposed to sexual harassment and exploitative treatment, while their senior counterparts earns six digit salaries. Often this hierarchy is countenanced because junior workers are willing to undergo short term poor treatment as a necessary step on the way to a more lucrative post with better pay and conditions

  • Asurvey we at LSWU created reveals that swathes of junior legal workers are earning less than the minimum wage

  • The survey of 267 legal sector workers between November and December last year was designed by LSWU with Organise, a workplace campaigning platform

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Summary

Introduction

Asurvey we at LSWU created reveals that swathes of junior legal workers are earning less than the minimum wage. Paralegals, law students, and pupils are often expected to work for free or on minimum wages, and can be exposed to sexual harassment and exploitative treatment, while their senior counterparts earns six digit salaries. Survey reveals shockingly low levels of pay and rising tensions as junior legal workers organise

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