Accountancy graduates seeking their first full-time role may be interested in recent comments from Keep Britain Working.
The organisation suggested that companies should ensure they are fair when altering working conditions after the TUC warned that pay freezes could reduce consumer demand and plunge the UK back into recession.
Keep Britain Working spokesperson Lewis Campbell explained that while many workers will accept pay freezes in order to keep their jobs, employers should not exploit their staff.
"In this recession more than half of the UK workforce have experienced changes in their working conditions - including cuts in hours, pay or benefits - according to our research," he revealed.
Mr Campbell said this will have resulted in fewer job cuts than may otherwise have been necessary, but that communication with staff is essential in order to make clear the challenges that the company is facing.
Recent IDS research shows that the average pay settlement last year was 2.3 per cent, despite inflation being below zero per cent for much of 2009.
