{"id":93499,"date":"2026-08-29T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93499"},"modified":"2026-08-29T06:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:30:43","slug":"uk-many-workers-trapped-in-zero-hours-exploitative-contracts-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/uk-many-workers-trapped-in-zero-hours-exploitative-contracts-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Many workers trapped in zero-hours &#8216;exploitative&#8217; contracts for years"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2b8OHm.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\" (Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most employees on zero-hours or variable contracts stay in insecure roles for at least two years, research suggests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/general\/many-workers-trapped-in-zero-hours-exploitative-contracts-for-years\/ar-AA2b8zbR?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a927a4a90bc49fea1929836aeb5952f&ei=30\">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>Most employees on zero-hours or variable contracts stay in insecure roles for at least two years, research suggests. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Zero-contract-hours.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93499","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=93499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93500,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93499\/revisions\/93500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}