### Clue: Model worker gets a rise or equivalent (10)
### Answer: TANTAMOUNT 
 ### Explanation: Definition: equivalent
 T(model of a car made by the Ford Motor Company) + ANT(social insect, a member of which may be from the worker caste) **plus**(gets) A + MOUNT(to increase/to rise, as in "prices mount as Christmas approaches").**
Defn: … in effect/amounting to the same, as in "his silence was tantamount to a confession".