Bosses are keeping workers on zero hours contracts for years. This is how precarity becomes normalised
And most don’t choose this ‘flexibility’: the vast majority would prefer a job with fixed hours, a new poll shows.
Anjum Klair
Women and young people are benefiting much less from the labour market recovery
The number of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds who have been unemployed for more than a year has also risen by almost 50 per cent since 2010
Once again we’re reminded: this won’t feel like a recovery to most people
While the overall number of people in work is now higher than in 2008, the composition of the workforce is very different.
The jobs recovery continues, but with insecure low paid work in the ascendency
Despite the continuing good news on unemployment, many people are still feeling the squeeze.
Sharp rise in self-employment may be masking true extent of unemployment
Despite today’s fall in unemployment, there are still causes for concern in the labour market.