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 ...

Suffolk County Council is proposing putting all of its ceremony officers on zero-hour contracts Registrars said they had been left "flummoxed" and "abandoned" after a council proposed putting them 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zero-hours contracts have some negative connotations, having been viewed as exploitative. However, some argue that they offer valuable flexibility to both workers and employers. Running a company in ...

With regards to today’s media headlines about the ban on zero hours for agency workers, the industry argues reforms would undermine the jobs market in a letter to the business secretary. Amanda ...

The number of workers on zero-hours contracts has hit a record high, ahead of Labour's planned crackdown on the practice from next year. A surge in 16-to-24-year-olds and workers not in full-time ...

Registrars said they had been left "flummoxed" and "abandoned" after a council proposed putting them on zero-hour contracts. Suffolk County Council told the BBC it was considering altering the ...