article_snippet.sent: Among the worst authorities are Wolverhampton, which had 738 staff on zero-hours contracts as of May 2014; Liverpool with 442 as of September 2014; and Ealing with 278 as of January 2015.
article_snippet.sent: Labour did nothing about zero-hours contracts during Labour 13 years in power, and now we learn that Labour MPs and councils use Labour MPs and councils routinely.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband suggestion that Britain has an ‘epidemic’ of zero hours contracts was rubbished by official statistics from the ONS.
article_snippet.sent: the ONS had explicitly warned the 697,000 people who reported having a zero-hours contract between October and December 2014 should not be compared with the 586,000 in the previous year.
article_snippet.sent: The UK’s official statistician said: ‘It is not possible to say how much of this increase is due to greater recognition of the term zero-hours contracts rather than new contracts.
article_snippet.sent: The Tories say The Tories have tightened the law to end abuse of zero-hours.
article_snippet.sent: There are some zero-hour contracts that people want.
article_snippet.sent: Labour’s proposal would potentially undermine job creation, jeopardise zero-hours workers’ current jobs and increase jeopardise zero-hours workers’ current jobs insecurity.
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday, opening up yet another front in his war on business, Ed Miliband pledged a Labour Government would ‘end the exploitation of zero-hours contracts’.
article_snippet.sent: We have an epidemic of zero-hours contracts in our country.
article_snippet.sent: According to the Office for National Statistics, between October and December last year a total of 697,000 people said a total of 697,000 people were employed on zero-hours contracts in a total of 697,000 people main job.
article_snippet.sent: It is true the number of people reporting they were on a zero-hours contract rose by 110,000 in the year to December 2014, but the ONS says the two sets of figures are not comparable.
article_snippet.sent: The Tories won’t end the exploitation of zero-hours contracts.
article_snippet.sent: A survey of employers by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development found that a third of voluntary sector organisations used zero-hours contracts, along with a quarter of public sector employers.
article_snippet.sent: Even the ever-meddling EU does not object to zero-hours contracts.
highlights_snippet.sent: But Labour councils and MPs hire many workers on zero-hours contracts .
  