#ZeroHours contracts cause #shopworkers misery for thousands - @UsdawUnion @BoycottWorkfare @UnemployedNet. A report has been submitted to 10 Downing Streets review of zero-hours contracts being carried out at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The authors say that in the light of their findings, the scope of the review should be widened to include all flexible working, arguing that #employees should have the right to have a say in the scheduling of their hours. One British worker interviewed for the study said: Ive got two kids and a mortgage and Im going to be out of a job because I cant do these hours. Another said: They put a lot of stress on people … I used to be in tears. The research, by Alex Wood and Brendan Burchell from the department of sociology at Cambridge sais: So-called flexi-contracts, whether thats zero, eight or 10 hours – none of which can provide a living – allow low-level management unaccountable power to dictate workers hours and consequent income to a damaging extent that is open to incompetence and abuse.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 15:13:14 +0000
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