MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Scotland is now dealing with the highest level of unemployment in modern history, with workers caught in a "cruel trap of low income and poor working conditions," a charity said Friday.
"There is a growing crisis of low pay and poor conditions in Scotland… With wages falling in real terms, families are becoming trapped in poverty, less secure terms and working hours, and with basic employment rights becoming harder to enforce," CAS spokesman Rob Gowans said, delivering the report to the Scottish Parliament.
According to the BBC, Christina McKelvie, a Scottish parliamentarian representing the Scottish National Party, said that the report was "worrying."
Last month, the BBC reported that as many as 5.5 percent of Scots were not employed, just below the UK unemployment rate. As many as 152,000 people in the region are estimated to be unemployed.
