WORKERS at Edinburgh’s world-famous festivals are “underpaid, poorly treated and work in precarious conditions,” a new report says.

The dossier, compiled by the Fair Fringe campaign, draws together examples of extreme working hours expectations, low pay and no pay, inhumane accommodation and deductions from wages.

Thousands of people descend on the Scottish capital every summer for the theatre, TV, film and books festivals, and their more famous stage and comedy “fringe.”