Well no. I didn't, because I didn't work with these people who were paid less, just the same as you didn't. Just the same as because I haven't been murdered and nor has anyone I know, it doesn't mean murders don't happen. Would it help if I used data from a posh website, to, you know, actually back up my opinion with facts, and not just my own personal experience?
In summary, for professionals, yes, foreign workers are paid the same or even more, but lower down the scale the reverse is true, rather as I suspected.
While revealing, these figures do not answer the question of whether foreign workers have depressed UK wages; although the average earnings of non-UK born workers in non-professional occupations is lower than for UK born workers.
https://fullfact.org/news/do-uk-immi...-born-workers/
Here is a more shocking example. I didn't report this myself, I read it in the Guardian.
Guardian undercover reporters explore retailer’s working practices – from losing wages for being a minute late to body searches and constant fear of being sacked
It may be 5.30am and pitch-black on the outskirts of Shirebrook, Derbyshire - but the roads are busy. A stream of cars, typically packed with eastern Europeans, wind their way along country lanes and deliver about 1,500 people to a massive facility surrounded by farmland ...
Step by step, minimum-wage workers are informed of what is expected of them for the headline rate of £6.70 an hour (in reality, many receive less) – including being told they will walk almost 20 miles each day inside the warehouse as they pick products off the shelves.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/09/sports-direct-warehouse-work-conditions