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Majority of zero-hour contract workers ‘stuck’ in long-term insecurity, TUC warns
Deliveroo riders gather outside 100 Bishopsgate, London, to protest against the company's working conditions and low pay, May 24, 2023
THE majority of workers on zero-hours contracts are stuck in insecure but long-term work, a TUC study published today has revealed.
Research by the union federation found that two in three such workers have been with their employers for more than a year.
Almost half have been with their current employer for more than two years and one in eight have been for more than a decade.
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