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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Heather Stewart

People are getting ‘stuck’ in insecure work for years, says UK thinktank

Deputy Labour party leader, Angela Rayner, speaking at the TUC congress in 2023
The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has championed Labour’s new deal for working people. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Insecure work can often be a trap, rather than a stepping stone to a better life, according to new research that tracked the employment of 10,000 people across four years.

As debate rages over Labour’s plans to improve workers’ rights, a study from the Work Foundation thinktank found that 44% of people in precarious work were in the same situation four years later, while another 9% had fallen out of work altogether.

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