Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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There were almost a million then and almost three million today, making up just under 10% of the workforce.
And this is in large part down to new countries entering the EU with their populations gaining the right to work here.
Yes, although we struggle here because there's no official job quality indicator we can turn to.
What we do know is that part-time jobs were a fifth of all new jobs over the past year.
However, 16% of people with part-time jobs, 1.3 million people...
said that really they wanted a full-time job but hadn't been able to get one.
That's dropped a little over the past year or so, but these numbers are still higher than they were before the economic crash.
There's a lot of concern about zero-hours contracts, isn't there?
And Ian Duncan Smith saying today he suggests that they just need a rebrand and be known as flexible-hours contracts.
Anyway, unfortunately, it's hard to work out what the trend is in terms of how many people are on zero-hours contracts.
A survey of workers found there were 700,000 people on them, a bit more than 2% of people in employment.
This was a big increase on the previous year, but it might be that people are just familiar with the term now and so more likely to say, oh yes, I'm on a zero-hours contract.
Yes, and the Green Party's Natalie Bennett made a point about this in the election debate on BBC One last night.
She was expressing sympathy for new graduates on the hunt for jobs.
Yes, pretty much it's an estimate by KPMG, but a fairly good one.
It's not a solid number, an estimate, but still.
The living wage, in case you're wondering, is £7.85 an hour, and it's said to be what you need to earn to cover basic needs.
It's more than a pound higher than the national minimum wage, the legal requirement, which is £6.50 an hour.
Turning them both into full-time annual salaries, the living wage is about £15,000.
The minimum wage is about £12,500.
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