More than one in nine in insecure employment

MORE than one in nine people in the North East is in insecure work, a new report suggests.

- GRAEME WHITFIELD

The report by the TUC says that insecure work - which it classes as zero-hours contracts, agency, casual and seasonal workers, as well as the low-paid self-employed who miss out on key rights and protections - is holding back workers and the economy.

On the opening day of the TUC Congress in Brighton, it has backed the Government's flagship workers’ rights bill will tackle Britain’s insecure work “epidemic”

The Employment Rights Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament, will ban exploitative zero hours contracts by giving workers a right to a contract which reflects their regular hours.