Once again, official statistics on the controversial zero-hours contracts - which guarantee no pay or working hours - have been revised upward. Unions are talking about “abuse” becoming the norm while employers are trying to avoid demonization.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) announced that, in the end, 1.4 million UK employees have a controversial zero-hours contract, whereby they have to be available for the employer who doesn’t have to guarantee any amount of work or income. This shocking figure is much higher than the 582,935 workers mentioned after the last official survey on the issue in March (see article No. 8239). However, this war figure – which has been lasting for months between unions, convinced that...
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