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Zero-hours contracts

July 2024

  • King Charles at the state opening of parliament

    Housebuilding, railways, Lords reform: what to expect in the king’s speech

  • Junior doctors hold orange and white placards reading 'pay restoration for doctors'

    Labour must take immediate action to deliver on workers’ rights, says union chief

June 2024

  • Heather Stewart

    If workers’ rights are a bit French, as the Tories suggest, then vive la révolution

    Heather Stewart
  • Jose Maria Moreno Lopez in hi-vis jacket holds van keys

    Spanish drivers hired to deliver Amazon parcels in UK take legal action over pay

  • A protest by fast food workers in London: a man holds a large red cardboard sign that reads No To Zero Hours in black and pink lettering.

    UK has seen ‘explosion’ in insecure work since 2011, says TUC report

  • Two elderly men seated at a table watch as Keir Starmer speaks while standing alongside, as Liz Kendall looks on

    Labour signs off election manifesto but Unite refuses to endorse it

May 2024

  • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner dressed in hi-vis vests standing on scaffolding at a building site

    Labour and unions reach agreement on workers’ rights proposals

    Labour commits to deal agreed last year, following weeks of tension over possible ‘watering down’
  • Grant Shapps

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Grant Shapps says it will ‘take some time’ to conclude who was to blame for cyber-attack on armed forces payroll – as it happened

    Defence secretary makes statement after 270,000 payroll records belonging to members of Britain’s armed forces been exposed to hackers

    • Labour must not cave in to pressure over zero-hours contracts

    • Unite warns it will hold back funds if Labour weakens plan on workers’ rights

    • Labour’s ‘new deal for workers’ will not fully ban zero-hours contracts

April 2024

  • Larry Elliott

    The doomsters were wrong about the minimum wage. They’re wrong about Labour’s new deal for workers, too

    Larry Elliott
    This is a policy that could make a radical difference – as long as it’s not watered down like the green prosperity plan, says the Guardian’s economics editor Larry Elliott

March 2024

  • Peter Mandelson in front row listening to shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’ keynote speech at Labour conference

    Labour says it will stick with workers’ rights plans despite Mandelson remarks

  • The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, and his deputy, Angela Rayner, visit a housing development in Shropshire on Monday.

    Is Labour about to prune its plan to boost workers’ rights?

February 2024

  • Courier bike on the streets of London

    Unions warn against watering down Labour reforms of workers’ rights and ban on zero-hours contracts

  • Keir Starmer speaks at the Labour business conference

    Labour stresses stability and no surprises as it courts business leaders

January 2024

  • woman sitting on the edge of bed visibly upset

    How women and younger UK workers are being hit by ‘underemployment’

    With their employers limiting the hours they can work, many people have to take two jobs to make end meet

November 2023

  • Rose Atkinson at home in Streatham, south London

    The zero-hours life: Rose Atkinson on hunger, hell and hope in 20 years of precarious work

    She is an artist, well educated and determined to earn a good living. But at times Atkinson has had just £17 a month for food and bills. She lays bare the reality of low-paid Britain

October 2023

  • Polly Toynbee

    I went to Labour conference in search of its plans for radical reform – what I found gave me hope

    Polly Toynbee
  • Keir Starmer delivers the Leader's Speech.

    Starmer brushes off the glitter to make coherent case for a Labour government

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