Zero hours contracts After months in which zero hours contracts have been high on the news agenda we now have a policy announcement, by Vince Cable to the Liberal Democrat’s annual conference. Details of the consultation will be announced later this year. A BIS review over the Summer which identified major four areas of concern: - imposing exclusivity on a worker without a guarantee of work, - the lack of a legal definition, - uncertainty of earnings and - the unequal balance of power between employer and worker. It has been taken in conjunction with a direction to the Low Pay Commission to work with the Government to define the economic conditions which would permit more significant increases in the National Minimum Wage in the longer term than the modest rise that take effect this week. Ed Miliband set out his stall on zero-hours contracts in a speech to the TUC conference. He committed the Labour party to banning these contracts if they require workers to be available without any guarantee of work or tie them to one particular employer. He also proposed outlawing their use in place of a permanent contract for workers who in fact work regular hours. It is not going to be easy to devise an effective way to regulate this, But it seems that a political consensus is emerging that something should be done to reduce Zero hours contracts even if there is no agreement at the moment on what that might be.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:51:15 +0000
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