Zero Hours Contracts M1

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This paper demonstrates the understanding of zero hour contracts in the context of UK. The contract zero hours is (zero hours contract) a contract of employment that does not guarantee person hours of work. It also contains an exclusivity clause forbidding a person to accept another job. With zero hours contract, one can have the same entitlement, paid in the event of sickness and maternity leave as other workers. The employers sometimes illegally refuse these rights. They cannot give a person enough work to qualify the rights that require a minimum income limit. Zero hours contracts are widely used in sales, hospitality, work for agency and other low-income jobs. One will not have guaranteed hours of work during the week, one cannot get any …show more content…

It is estimated that for example in McDonalds in the UK for over 90% of workers are zero-hour contracts, but it is known that in other food chains such as Subway there are also people who work well. According to Zhong, Hedges, Ahlefeldt, Bartholomew, Beavan, Wittig, Longdell and Sellars (2015), employers, who have increasingly used this form of contracting with rising unemployment (camouflaging also like statistics), see only advantages in having employees who can work week-yes-week-not day-yes-day-not without pay them when they are not. Yu, Tesfatsion and Liu (2012) explains that majority companies still require exclusivity, which means that many workers to zero-hour contracts cannot cover its partial unemployment or full with other activities. Although the official statistics of the British government point to 250 000 people are working zero-hour contracts, a report released yesterday by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the result of surveys of more than 1,000 employers, estimates that the total number already exceed one …show more content…

In accordance of Zhong et.al (2015), the unions dispute this form of contracting, while local bosses repeat the neoliberal cassette also hear around here (not only among employers but also from the mouth of the leader of the UGT), even though there is precarious contracts but would be even more unemployment. It is better to work precariously than being unemployed. So it increases the precariousness, which in turn increases unemployment. The nineteenth century is not around the corner, has come again - either in the name of mini jobs, false green receipts or zero-hours contracts, we have entered a time machine that it is urgent to

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