Published on October 10, 2024 at 2:37 p.m. / Modified on October 10, 2024 at 3:33 p.m.
Charlie works as a security guard in the North East of England. Once a month, he receives his work schedule from his employer. “I never know how many hours he will make me work,” says this father of two young children. Some months he gives me four days, other times ten. I don’t have a say.” And if he works more than sixteen hours a week, he loses access to social benefits which allow him to supplement his income.
The 26-year-old has a “zero hours” contract, that is to say without guaranteed working hours, a practice which has become widespread in the United Kingdom. Today it concerns a million workers. Insecure by his unstable job, Charlie struggles to make ends meet. “My salary is not enough to keep us going until the end of the month,” he says. To get by, he goes to food banks and only turns on the heating for a few hours a day.
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