Articles on Zero-hour contracts
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Moves to criminalise sex work are facing tough opposition from those in the industry.
Too little is known about the changing work patterns at the margins of the labour market.
Today’s employment crisis is as serious as the Great Depression – so why aren’t we up in arms?
MPs will vote Monday on a welfare bill which imagines a world where work is a gilded path away from poverty.
The government’s commitment to boosting employment is undermined by the proliferation of harsh and insecure temporary jobs with no long-term prospects.
David Cameron has told company bosses that firms should give their staff a pay rise. Certainly a raise in wages would be long overdue. The small average wage increase over the past year or so (1.8% between…
There can be no doubt that the job market has been more resilient since the financial crisis than many imagined. Unemployment did not rise as far as was feared and the recovery in employment to pre-recession…
No company wants to be singled out for having “Victorian” work practices, as Sports Direct has been. Despite the poisonous reputation of zero hours contracts, employers continue to argue they need them…







