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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Gwyn Topham

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Most zero hours workers with same employer for more than a year - The Untold Story

Workers on a strike picket line in Wigan in 2013.
A strike in Wigan in 2013: unions say insecure work and low pay is holding back economic growth. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Hundreds of thousands of British workers are on zero-hours contracts despite being with the same employer for years, according to analysis from the TUC.

The majority of zero-hours contract workers have been with their employer for more than 12 months, while one in eight have not been granted regular employment rights after more than a decade working in the same place, the organisation said.

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