Sports Direct zero hours announcement won’t stop job insecurity, warns the TUC

Commenting on the announcement today (Monday) that Sports Direct will make changes for staff on zero hours contracts, following legal action, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:

“It is good that Sports Direct will now be more open about what a bad deal zero hours contracts can be for workers. Other companies should do the same.

“But this settlement does nothing to stop the insecurity of zero hours contracts. Nor does it end the fear that zero hours workers have of getting on the wrong side of their manager in case they are victimised.”

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