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On the menu, a strong rise in the number of zero hours contracts in Great Britain, agreements over wages at Renault Samsung and GM in South Korea, in Hungary McDonalds is providing free housing to workers in a bid to fill the vacancies gap, and Puma is launching a financing program with BNP Paribas that rewards suppliers which uphold social and environmental standards.
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Great Britain/ A strong rise in the number of zero hours contracts. According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in Great Britain the number of zero hours contracts bounced more than 20% during the period from April to June as compared with the same period in 2015. In other words 903,000 people or 2.9% of the labor force now work on these highly controversial zero hours contracts, which guarantee neither minimum salary nor working time amounts. Whilst in March 2016, the then PM David Ca

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