Leading charity warns of workers’ rights crisis as ‘new normal’ pushes employees to breaking point

Gig economy, agency and zero-hours staff face worse employment rights violations than the rest of the working population, Citizens Advice has warned as the number of people on zero-hours contracts reaches an all-time high.
As Covid continues to ravage the labour market, a million people are now considered “insecure workers” with no guaranteed income from their bosses, more than half of whom –…