Guardian publishes correction on zero-hours contracts 'surge'

Yesterday's Guardian front page said official statistics showed there had been a 'huge surge' in the number of zero-hours contracts.

As we covered yesterday, this is inaccurate. The statistics in question were the first of their kind, and were not comparable to the other available sources.

Today the Guardian has published a correction in their paper edition and an update and correction to the online version of the article.

But the correction, on page 41 of the paper, will clearly not have the same reach as yesterday's front page. With this in mind we would urge the Guardian to consider how it can match the prominence of corrections to the original inaccurate claims.

We also asked the Mirror to make the same correction yesterday, and await a response.