The number of people in Great Britain employed on zero-hours contracts has risen by almost 20% over a year.
According to the latest data published on Wednesday 02 September 2015 by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), during the period from April – June 2015, 744,000, or 2.4% of the work force, were working on zero-hours contracts, which guarantee neither the number of hours worked nor the salary. This marks a 19.2% rise from the similar period in 2014 (624,000). The ONS has nuanced the rise insofar as some of it may be the result of people being more aware of the media attention and that they a
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