The figures showed an additional 181,000 people are on zero-hours contracts than when Labour came to power in 2024. Young workers are five times more likely to be on zero-hours contracts, while women ...

A record 1.23 million workers are now on zero-hours contracts, new analysis has revealed, coming ahead of Labour’s plan to bolster the rights of these employees. The figure has risen by 91,000 over ...

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 number of workers employed under zero hour contracts reaches a record high of 1.23 million ahead of new government rights ...

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 record 1.23 million people are now on zero-hours contracts as their main job, an increase of 91,000 in a year, according to the Work Foundation at Lancaster University. This rise, driven by 16-to-24 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [Getty Images] The number of workers on zero-hours contracts has hit a record high, ahead of Labour's planned crackdown on the ...