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Zero hour contract employees should be counted as unemployed

Submitted on Monday 5th August 2013

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Zero hour contract employees should be counted as unemployed

Additional Information

Employees on Zero Hour contracts are not employed in the real sense of the word. However counting the the growning number of workers as employed makes the government's figures look like they are constantly improving. At the same time they are claiming there are increasing number of people benefit.


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