Wasn’t Labour supposed to be tackling the scourge of insecure employment, doing away with exploitative zero hours contracts and giving employees protection against unfair dismissal from the first day they start their jobs? How odd then that so far it seems to have achieved the exact opposite. The latest labour market figures released by the Office for National Statistics this morning shows that the number of payrolled employees between June and August was 115,000 lower than in the same period last year. Over the latest quarter the fall was 31,000. An apparent rise of 10,000 payrolled positions in August seems to have been reversed in the provisional figures for September.

The number of payrolled employees between June and August was 115,000 lower than in the same period last year

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