TV chef Michel Roux Jr paid kitchen staff below minimum wage
As part of a series on the UK’s increasingly precarious world of work, we spoke to some chefs who say they earned as little as £5.50 an hour at Le Gavroche restaurant
A day in the life of a care worker: 23 house calls in 12 hours for £64.80
More than 600,000 people work in the care sector, many for agencies hired by councils, on zero-hours contracts and minimal rates of pay. Jean is one of them
Number of care workers on zero-hours contracts jumps to one in seven
The latest in a series on the increasingly precarious world of work finds accusations of ‘endemic’ abuse of minimum wage laws
How can you tell if a temp agency is using a tax avoidance scheme?
A Guardian investigation has found the taxpayer is losing hundreds of millions of pounds a year in national insurance
More than 7m Britons now in precarious employment
As part of the Guardian series on the UK’s increasingly uncertain world of work, analysis of official figures reveals more than one in five workers could lose their jobs at short or no notice
Revealed: temp agencies' tax avoidance scheme costs 'hundreds of millions'
In the first of a series on the UK’s increasingly precarious world of work, a Guardian investigation uncovers the use of ‘contrived’ financial arrangements to slash national insurance bills
