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Insecure work holding back Yorkshire and Humber economy, TUC says

One in eight people in the region is not in secure work, according to the trade union body

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress(Image: Tim Merry/Staff Photographer)

The Yorkshire and Humber area has one of the highest areas of people in insecure work, a new report suggests.

The report by the TUC says that insecure work – which it classes as zero-hours contracts, agency, casual and seasonal workers, as well as the low-paid self-employed who miss out on key rights and protections – is holding back workers and the economy. It says 12.5% of people in the Yorkshire area - one in eight - are in insecure work.

On the opening day of the TUC Congress in Brighton, it has backed the Government’s flagship workers’ rights bill will tackle Britain’s insecure work “epidemic”. The Employment Rights Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament, will ban exploitative zero hours contracts by giving workers a right to a contract which reflects their regular hours.

It will also give workers the right to compensation from cancelled shifts. The union body published new analysis which showed that four million people are in insecure work in the 海角视频. The TUC said insecure work “exploded” under the Conservative government, increasing by 800,000 from 2011 to 2024.

The proportion of the wider workforce in insecure work also went up from 10.7% to 11.7% in the same period, said the report. The highest levels of insecure work were seen in Wales and the South West, followed by Yorkshire and Humber.

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “This insecure work epidemic isn’t just holding back workers, it’s holding back our economy too. When workers don’t have security at work, they tend to earn less, and that means they spend less, too.

“The Tory experiment with low-paid, insecure work has been tested to destruction. That’s why the Employment Rights Bill is so badly needed.”

The TUC report said that low-paid jobs in care, leisure, service and the elementary sector account for three quarters (77%) of the net increase in insecure jobs. The care sector in particular is made up overwhelmingly of women. In addition, black and minority ethnic (BME) workers have been disproportionately affected by the growth of insecure work.