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MORE than four million workers’ livelihoods are subject to the whims of their bosses as they toil in insecure work, a Citizens Advice study reveals today.
While an estimated 800,000 people in England and Wales are lumped with headlinegrabbing zero-hours contracts, more than 2.3m are stuck working variable shift patterns and another 1.1m only have temporary contracts with their employers.
Citizens Advice warned the situation is a serious challenge to workers when planning their finances, as well as piling on stress levels and anxiety.
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
