Liverpool council has defended its use of staff on “zero hours” contracts after it emerged up to 500 staff at the authority were employed on them.

Information revealed under the Freedom of Information Act shows that there are 442 people who work for the authority who are not given fixed hours per week.

Politicians and trade unions have launched high-profile campaigns in recent years against the conditions, which they claim commit people to low paid jobs that are so irregular in terms of hours that it stops them working elsewhere to earn enough to live on.

Reported by the Liverpool Echo. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.