More than one million people in the UK are on zero-hours contracts, new data has revealed, despite Labour’s pledge to eliminate the “exploitative” contracts last year. Some 1.17 million people were on ...

There has been a lot of news about exploitative zero-hour contracts recently, and while it does not seem that they will be ...

A proposed crack down on zero-hour contracts in the workplace have suffered a setback today. Flagship plans by the Government to halt zero-hour contracts in the workplace have been scuppered by peers ...

"Structural racism in the jobs market is holding BME women back," a union body has warned, after analysis found Black and minority ethnic (BME) women are now nearly three times as likely to be on zero ...

With regards to today’s media headlines about the ban on zero hours for agency workers, the industry argues reforms would undermine the jobs market in a letter to the business secretary. Amanda ...

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Zero-hours contract means an employer isn’t obligated to provide a set amount of work, and the worker isn’t obliged to accept it. A worker’s legal rights are determined by their employment status as ...

Young people working in insecure jobs have been promised a "new deal" by the government. A law announced last week includes a ban on "exploitative" zero-hours contracts which allow employers to only ...

Within its proposals to amend employment law the new government has indicated that it intends to outlaw exploitative zero hours contracts. Along with changes to employment status for workers this ...

Demand for flexible work patterns, potential loopholes, and problems with defining 'regular contract' means Labour's proposals face considerable challenges Despite promises from Ed Miliband that a ...

UK video game retailer GAME, which has more than 240 stores across the country, is laying off in-store staff below the manager level, IGN has learned. Following a preliminary announcement on April 8, ...