Thousands in low-paid jobs working on Christmas Day

MORE than one million people will be working on Christmas Day, often in low-paid jobs, according to new research.

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The TUC said official data showed that care workers, nurses and nursing auxiliaries/assistants and the clergy are usually the busiest occupations when most people have a day off.

Tens of thousands of people working on Christmas Day are in low-paid and insecure work such as social care, where one in five workers is employed on zero-hours contracts, according to the union organisation.