Other retailers to confirm that they do not employ staff on these terms include Argos, B&Q, Homebase, John Lewis and Marks & Spencer.
However, it is wrong from a quality, financial and fairness point of view to pay excessive rates for locums when they are working alongside hard working permanent staff on NHS terms," he said.
Beeston also points out that out of the 1000 employers interviewed in the survey, only 117 were from the voluntary sector, and that those who used zero hours contracts rarely had more than 10% of staff on such terms.
(Note: The data provided reflect staff on fixed terms or on continuing appointments, and excludes APOs, NPOs, and field projects).
She has shaken up the organisation's headquarters and put more than half the staff on short-term contracts.
They show that within the Russell Group, the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick have the largest proportion of frontline teaching staff on short-term or zero-hours and other flexible contracts.
But the real picture is much worse: there will be many unfilled vacancies, while support staff on short-term contracts will quietly disappear.The result will be larger classes and more pupils sent home early.
More than half of those that did neglected to include the contract status of employees, leaving the authorities blind to the preponderance of ethnic minority staff on short term contracts.
The University and College Union (UCU) said plans to exclude fixed-term contracts from collective redundancy agreements were "another damaging blow" for post-16 education, a sector with high rates of staff on fixed term contracts that has already been hit with funding cuts and threats of job losses.
The coalition government's education policies, led by Michael Gove and David Willetts, continued Thatcher's market-driven reforms, cutting all direct funding to the humanities, creating the cumbersome research excellence framework (Ref), which seeks to audit the academics' research "outputs", and overseeing a dramatic increase in the number of staff on short-term contracts.
