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A flagship policy of the Starmer Government’s upgrade to workers’ rights was the promise to end the exploitative use of zero-hours contracts. Though these types of casual labour arrangements now referred to as ‘zero-hours contracts’ have been around for a long time, the past decade has seen the labour movement call out employers for abusing the one-sided flexibility of these arrangements, plunging millions into insecurity and low wages.
In present day, ONS data (2025) shows near record levels of zero hours contracts: 1.7 million people in the UK are currently subjected to these…
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