Jan 21, 2015
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Workers on zero-hours contracts earn nearly £300 a week less than permanent employees. This is the conclusion in a TUC-report.
Workers on zero-hours contracts earn nearly £300 a week less than permanent employees. This is the conclusion in a TUC-report. The trade union confederation based its report on unpublished data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Average weekly earnings for zero-hour workers are £188, compared with £479 for permanent staff. The ONS has estimated there are 1.4 million contracts with no guaranteed minimum hours. The publication of the report The Decent Jobs Deficit: The Human Cost of Zero-Hours Working and Casual Labour marked the beginning of the TUC’s Decent Jobs Week.
English: http://www.bbc.com/news/business ...
http://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/DecentJobsDeficitReport.pdf
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.