Highly variable hours mean pay and benefits are difficult to predict and manage for a mother of three in Salford
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“Obviously I never know what I’m going to be paid each week,” says Jessica Burns, a mother of three young children from Salford.
Burns, who is 30, enjoys her job at a local branch of the supermarket Iceland, which she can walk to in half an hour.