Virus Outbreak Unemployment Benefits (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Gig economy, agency and zero-hours staff face worse employment rights violations than the rest of the working population, Citizens Advice has warned as the number of people on zero-hours contracts reaches an all-time high.
As Covid continues to ravage the labour market, a million people are now considered “insecure workers” with no guaranteed income from their bosses, more than half of whom – alongside gig and agency workers – class themselves as key workers.
Last week’s new employment figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveal the number […]
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