On Zero Hour Contracts?

A 'zero-hour contract' is a type of contract between an employer and a worker according to which the employer is not obliged to provide any minimum working hours and the worker is not obliged to accept any work offered.

What rights do you have on a zero hour contract?

Zero-hours workers are entitled to statutory annual leave and the National Minimum Wage in the same way as regular workers. You cannot do anything to stop a zero-hours worker from getting work elsewhere. The law says they can ignore a clause in their contract if it bans them from: looking for work.

What's bad about zero hour contracts?

One of the disadvantages of zero-hour contracts from the perspective of an employee is the issue of workplace benefits. Zero hours employers are not obliged to provide employees with redundancy pay, holiday pay, sick pay, or a pension scheme. However, the fact that they are not obliged to doesn't mean that none do.