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Zero hours contracts
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AnninGlos | Report | 28 Oct 2014 09:33 |
Just received this. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 28 Oct 2014 15:00 |
This is how our wonderful goverenment can say that unemployment is at its lowest for years. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 28 Oct 2014 15:52 |
I agree having a Grandson and his wife both on zero hours. Luckily in their cases it is not too bad and their hours are quite good and consistent with paid holidays, but it is good that sports direct have to tighten up. |
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SueCar | Report | 28 Oct 2014 21:34 |
Thanks for telling us about this, Ann in G. |
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Sharron | Report | 28 Oct 2014 23:56 |
I am sure that zero hours contracts have proved to be a tremendous boon to some companies, especially small ones, that could not provide consistent employment but did need some help to keep running. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 29 Oct 2014 06:30 |
Zero Hour do have their place and are essential for casual, piece work or on call work. Workers are entitled to statutory annual leave and the National Minimum Wage in the same way as regular workers, so are not entirely at the mercy of their employer. |
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Guinevere | Report | 29 Oct 2014 06:46 |
Glad to see them being held to account. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 29 Oct 2014 10:10 |
IGP is quite correct zero hour contracts are essential for work which is done on any kind of casual basis. Many small companies and start ups could not survive / get going without such contracts. The lack of this kind of contract is one of many reasons that small companies fail to start and grow in most of the EU. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 29 Oct 2014 10:40 |
Grandson and his wife work in the service industry. He is in a large restaurant where he has no complaints at all about his shifts etc and he gets paid leave and sick pay, in fact he has done very well with them, they have proved themselves to be very compassionate as he needs leave to help his Mum with his father's ill health. His wife, in the job she is in now (fish and chip shop) is doing ok, She gets paid leave and, so far, has not had too much problem with having shifts cancelled. She did work somewhere in a canteen where she was treated very badly, shifts changed, or cancelled and no work for weeks at a time. As this is in a tourist area it was easy to see the reason but the job centre put her there as a proper (not casual) job and she was trying with grandson to get a mortgage. |
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