To what extent have weaknesses and limitations in the UK’s employment rights protections – such as exploitative zero hours contracts – contributed to poor productivity, regional inequality, or child poverty?
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The department wants to build the evidence base for the impacts that jobs with higher pay, better working conditions and security can have on employees and the knock-on impacts on society as a whole.
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