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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Around 1 million people in the UK are on employment contracts that do not specify a minimum number of hours they can work, not 11 million, contrary to a widely shared post online that also ...

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 ...

Weeding out “exploitative” zero-hour contracts has been a pledge under the government’s Employment Rights Bill since it was ...

The CIPD is recommending the Government ban employers from using exclusivity clauses for zero hours contract workers unless they can demonstrate a compelling business reason for using them. The ...

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 ...

The Resolution Foundation recommends a number of reforms that it says will protect the rights of workers without limiting flexibility for employers Workers who have been on zero hours contracts for a ...

Providers warn that Ed Miliband’s pledge to stamp out zero-hour contracts will affect the economic viability of home care. The UK Home Care Association has warned that Labour’s plan to ban zero-hour ...