Cambridge News report:

More than 1,100 staff are employed by a council on zero hours contracts which give them no guarantee of work.

Labour said it was “very worrying” that a freedom of information request had revealed 1,138 people at Cambridgeshire County Council were on the contracts, which offer little financial stability or security.

The council defended the contracts, saying they allowed relief staff to be brought in without extra cost to taxpayers.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.