Legal proffesion

Underemployment

Are you getting enough hours at work? If you work shifts, or have a zero-hour contract, you may find that you are underemployed. When you work on an hourly rate, changes to the amount of hours you're contracted or a cap on your shifts can lead to financial problems. As many as 2.4 million British workers are currently underemployed in this way.

Low job security

Certain types of contracts, such as zero-hour contracts and flexible contracts, also offer workers a low level of job security. Since these workers are not full-time staff members, they have fewer rights than other team members, and the chance that they will lose their role may be higher.
It doesn't end there. Self-employed individuals that work with large businesses, such as delivery drivers, get no employment rights, despite having to work regular shift patterns.
How does this type of work affect your health?
You don't have to be a scientist to understand that your health and your job are intrinsically linked. To prove this, researchers looked at people's self-reported health scores and measured them against the type of work they do.
For instance, 17% of workers with low job security reported that they did not have good health, with 13% reporting that they had "fair health" and 4% saying they had "poor health". This finding could be a result of the higher stress levels experienced by people who fear they may lose their jobs.
What's more, 12% of people with low pay also said that they did not experience good health, along with the same percentage of workers with low levels of autonomy (i.e. freedom in their role). These findings suggest that when workers are employed in low-quality positions that make them feel undervalued, it has a direct impact on their health.
It's important to note that these statistics are based on people's self-reporting rather than medical evidence, which means the actual impact on people's health may differ accordingly. That said, people's individual understanding of their own health still has value.