Black and Asian women ‘three times as likely to be on zero-hours contracts as white men’
The IndependentGet Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Black, Asian and minority ethnic women are nearly three times as likely to be on zero-hours contracts as white men, new figures show. Some 6.8 per cent of minoritised groups are on zero-hours contracts, compared to 2.5 per cent of white men, according to data analysis from the Trades Union Congress. The TUC says this increase in zero-hours contracts for BME workers reflects “structural racism in the jobs market”, while campaigners have been lobbying the government to scrap zero-hour contracts altogether. White women are also significantly more likely than white men to be on zero-hours contracts: 4 per cent compared to 2.5 per cent.
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