Current labour market conditions are widening the income gap between full-time employees and an increasing share of the workforce on part-time, insecure and often low-paid jobs. This comes in a context where income inequality, measured by the Gini coefficient of disposable income, was already high and rising before the recession. Although inequality fell in 2010-11, as the fall in real incomes was larger at the top of the income distribution than at the bottom, absolute poverty increased (Cribb et al.,