Insecure workers ‘left high and dry’ during covid-19 crisis – and one Teesside town is badly hit

(Image: SHARED CONTENT UNIT) Thousands of workers in Teesside are on "insecure" temporary contracts, putting them in a precarious position during the pandemic.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 4.7% of all workers in Teesside were “non-permanent” in 2019, leaving around 9,400 people in the area without job security.

That’s up from 4.2% of workers the year before, or around 8,400 people.But it’s in Middlesbrough – where the coronavirus has hit hardest and the rate of infection is the fourth highest in the country – that the most people are a part of the "gig economy".Non-permanent employment can […]

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