Britain’s self-employment boom relies on a diminution of workers’ rights
15 per cent of the British workforce are now self-employed but this often comes at the cost of job security and employer obligations such as pensions and sick pay.
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Jeremy Hunt will ‘bring the gig economy into the NHS’ with new health worker app
The health secretary just announced a new NHS app to help staff ‘do extra hours at short notice’.
The spread of precarious work is a political choice. We have to be bold in tackling it
Green co-leader Jonathan Bartley says we must be radical in responding to the gig economy – so that workers don’t just survive, but thrive.
Someone just joined the House of Lords through the votes of 16 aristocrats
And we know next to nothing about him.
Community and religious groups are having to fill the gaps left by austerity
Aid and welfare have become the concerns of local people following cuts to local services across Europe
Moderate Tories like Anna Soubry need to think hard about what comes next
The party’s centrists must make their presence felt
GMB chief Tim Roache calls for agency workers cap to tackle exploitation
Bosses are trying to ‘maximise profit on the back of insecure work’, Roache tells MPs
What dangers await Labour in Manchester Gorton?
The seat should be super-safe, but some have doubts
PMQs: Jeremy Corbyn is right about ‘gig economy’ and selective schools – but statements aren’t questions
The Labour Party leader must sharpen his remarks at PMQs
905,000 people are now on zero-hour contracts – up 13 per cent in a year
‘Zero-hours contracts allow bosses to treat workers like disposable labour’
