In the Queen’s Speech in December the government set out a raft of proposals on workers’ rights which included a pledge to make “Britain the best place in the world to work”, to promote “fairness in the workplace”, and to introduce “measures that protect those in low-paid work and the gig economy” (2019).
Data suggests that around 10 per cent of all workers – 3.7 million people – are in insecure work, reliant on zero hours contracts where they have little or no certainty from one day to the next what hours they will be working or what they will earn (Sharp, 2019).
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