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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK government has announced a major decision to ban zero-hours contracts, a move aimed at providing job security and fair wages for workers. The ban will also cover agency workers, ensuring that ...

"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 ...

The number of workers on zero-hours contracts has increased by a fifth over the past year, official figures show. Just over 900,000 people say they work on a zero-hours basis in their main job - up ...