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Radio 4,28 Sep 2011,53 mins
Unpaid work trials and zero hours contracts - are they fair?
You and YoursAvailable for over a year
Are unpaid work trials, and zero hours contracts fair ways to assess skills and manage unpredictable work patterns, or exploitation? Winifred Robinson finds out. More about Richard Desmond's Hospital Lottery - is it set to challenge the National Lottery? We find out whether having a lodger can affect your insurance. The government is withdrawing elderly and disabled concessions on coach travel in England, but the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament aren't. We find out what impact this will have on travellers. Reevoo has launched a mark to guarantee authentic social media content. We find out why it is needed, and whether it will work. And ahead of the Office of Fair Trading report into off-gas grid domestic energy market we look at the effectiveness of price comparison for this part of the market, and whether customers off grid should be buying now, or waiting till the winter. Producer: Rebecca Moore.
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