{"id":40267,"date":"2022-12-26T22:10:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T22:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=40267"},"modified":"2022-12-26T22:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T22:10:23","slug":"almost-300000-over-50s-on-zero-hours-contracts-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/26\/almost-300000-over-50s-on-zero-hours-contracts-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 300,000 over-50s on zero hours contracts \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40268\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/over-50s-300x190.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/over-50s-300x190.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/over-50s-360x228.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/over-50s.jpeg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">T<\/span>he number of workers over the age of 50 who are on zero hours contracts has increased to almost 300,000, the highest for this age group since records began in 2013\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/almost-300-000-over-50s-on-zero-hours-contracts-report\/ar-AA15F1V0?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=7a89697feaec412085f22ff48ae06d8c\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The number of workers over the age of 50 who are on zero hours contracts has increased to almost 300,000, the highest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/over-50s.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40269,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267\/revisions\/40269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}