#zero-hours contracts

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‘Snoop Dogg is advertising Just Eat, but it is me that has to deliver it’: the courier leading the UK’s longest gig-economy strike

Since December, Parirs Dixon has been organising fellow couriers to picket popular takeaways in Sheffield in an effort to improve pay. Now the industrial action is spreading to other cities

[spsot]

Why the road to full employment is lined with food banks

Economists say a low joblessness rate is not necessarily a sign of a healthy economy

[thefourdayweekparty-blog]

Talk to Deliveroo couriers. See a dystopia that could be your future | Owen Jones

The realities facing the ‘contractors’ are grim. No wonder their union is appealing to the high court, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

[spsot]

Killed By My Debt – a sad true story turned into a compelling family tragedy

If you haven’t yet seen this dramatisation lifting the lid on the reality of zero-hours contracts and payday loans, you should – but it’s not an easy watch

[kombizz]

UK worker strike total falls to lowest level since 1893

33,000 workers in disputes in 2017 – despite worst period of wage growth since 1815

[sztupy]

Deliveroo accused of 'creating vocabulary' to avoid calling couriers employees

Checklist for managers includes saying ‘independent suppliers’ instead of ‘staff’ and ‘onboarding’ instead of ‘hiring’

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