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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...