article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband vowed to end casual employment contracts yesterday but his crackdown backfired spectacularly as Ed Miliband forgot Labour use his crackdown .
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband yesterday vowed to end casual employment contracts that ‘undermine living standards and family life’.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking in Huddersfield, Ed Miliband said a Labour government would legislate to require employers to offer a contract to anyone who had been working regular hours for 12 weeks.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband made a stinging attack on both David Cameron and firms that use ‘exploitative’ contracts which fail to guarantee minimum hours of work.
article_snippet.sent: The Labour politicians said The Labour politicians had been told by the Parliamentary expenses watchdog to use the contracts in order to pay a living wage.
article_snippet.sent: Last week David Cameron said David Cameron could not live on an ‘exploitative zero-hours contract’.
article_snippet.sent: JAMES SLACK sorts the Labour leader’s emotive claims about the contracts from the very different reality.
article_snippet.sent: In some cases, the two sets of figures will have been on the contracts for years but only just become aware of the fact… because Miliband had spent so much time talking about the two sets of figures.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband said Ed Miliband could not survive on one of the contracts – but plenty employed by Labour councils and officials have to do so.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband vowed yesterday to end casual employment contracts .
  