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Young people ‘more likely to leave for health reasons when in low-paid, insecure jobs’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/03/young-people-more-likely-to-leave-for-health-reasons-when-in-low-paid-insecure-jobs #Unemployment #Tuc #YoungPeople #Business #PatMcfadden #UkUnemploymentAndEmploymentStatistics #Labour #UkNews #Politics #ZerohoursContracts #Society #Health #TradeUnions

Young people ‘more likely to leave for health reasons when in low-paid, insecure jobs’

Research for TUC analyses link between job quality and economic inactivity, as UK youth unemployment rises

The Guardian

Hacker News Feb 26

Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj1m7d4gxpo

#HackerNews #zeroHoursContracts #UKWorkers #employment #crisis #labor #rights #crackdown

Number of workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high

There has been a 181,000 increase in the number of zero-hours contracts since Labour was elected.

BBC News

World news | The Guardian Feb 19

Ministers must end ‘barking mad’ restraints on civil service pay, union leader warns https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/19/ministers-must-end-restraints-civil-service-pay-regulators-mike-clancy-prospect-union #CivilService #PublicSectorPay #Regulators #PublicServicesPolicy #TradeUnions #ZerohoursContracts #WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #UkNews #Politics #Society #Business

Ministers must end ‘barking mad’ restraints on civil service pay, union leader warns

Exclusive: Prospect boss Mike Clancy cites problems retaining technical and digital experts

The Guardian

World news | The Guardian Feb 15

UK’s gender pay gap forecast to persist for another 30 years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/15/gender-pay-gap-persist-30-years-uk-tuc #GenderPayGap #Pay #UkNews #WorkersRights #Business #Tuc #Women #Inequality #WorkCareers #ZerohoursContracts

UK’s gender pay gap ‘won’t close for 30 years’ at current rates

Trades Union Congress says women have worked a month and a half for nothing this year and legislation is needed

The Guardian

Emeritus Prof Christopher May Feb 4

Less than five months ago, the post below appeared on a Labour Party feed.... but now (presumably under pressure from employers), the Party has decided to 'reform' zero hours contracts instead.

While one can hope zero hours contracts will be constrained this is not the same as 'banning' them - whatever you may think of the reasoning for retaining some from of ZHCs, this is yet one more gift to the Greens in the Gorton & Denton by-election.

#politics #Greens #workers #ZeroHoursContracts

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PSiReN-X

May 26, 2025

#BTW: #IF you can't #Remember what #DoubleTimeAndAHalfAndADayInLieu was; #IT's what #Employers used to #Pay #TheRightStaff™️ to #Work #UnsocialHours; #YouKnow, #Before #ZeroHoursContracts were #Invented and #Everyone was #Fired...

Have a #LittleThink #AboutThat...

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PSiReN-X

Apr 18, 2025

#HappyHappy #HappyDoubleTimeAndAHalfAndADayInLieuDay...!

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May Oct 16, 2024

The view of Labour's Employment Rights Bill from someone who one might have thought would have been helped by it....

She's not hopeful, not least as she expects cynical employers to manipulate the system to expand the loopholes in the proposed legislation on zero hours contracts.

#workers #ZeroHoursContracts

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/16/zero-hours-job-labour-workers-employment-rights-bill

I’m stuck on the zero-hours job treadmill. Here’s why Labour’s reforms won’t help workers like me

Having no rights or stability wrecks your mental and physical health. The employment rights bill isn’t enough to change that, says creative pattern cutter Rose Atkinson

The Guardian