Zero-hours contracts are failing to provide more flexibility to workers and are instead trapping people in low pay, with black and minority workers worse affected.
The problem is particular acute for women from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, found research by the TUC and campaigners Race on the Agenda (Rota). Both organisations allege that insecure work operates within a framework of “structural racism”.
One in six zero hours workers were from black and ethnic minority backgrounds compared with one in nine workers overall, the study found, although workers from ethnic minorities only made up one in nine workers overall.
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