Tuesday 12 September 2017

Turning up to be sent home without pay: life in insecure work

by Alex Collinson in Working Life (Touchstone blog from the TUC)

Imagine turning up to work only to be sent home without pay. It would be frustrating, wouldn’t it?

It would be more frustrating still if you had already paid for childcare that day; or if you’d cancelled other plans so you could work; or if not receiving that day’s pay would make it difficult to make ends meet that week.

For millions of people working in insecure jobs, this is what they face every day.

In a recent survey, the TUC heard from hundreds of people about their experiences of insecure work. Over the next four days, we’ll look at four themes that emerged in the responses:
Terrifies me! I have been so lucky all my life. Unemployment benefit in the 60s when you could live on what you got, a civil service job for the next 22 years, then ran my own company and even when that went bottom up in the grand recession I had a pension to fall back on.


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