“If your workforce is insecure, doesn’t know how many hours it’s going to get, you’re very unlikely to get the best out of them.”
- Zero hour contracts - bad for employers too? Channel4.com, August 1, 2013.
2. It’s not every day you get to unveil a completely new series, especially not in as politically charged an area as zero-hours contracts.
These figures are, like the GDP figures we had earlier in the week, a preliminary estimate.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that employers in the UK held 1.4 million contracts that did not guarantee a minimum number of hours, but on which some work was done in the two weeks beginning on 20 January.
It’s a little hard to reconcile that with the previous figures that the ONS released.
It asked people if they were predominantly employed on a zero-hours basis as part of the Labour Force Survey and came up with a figure of 583,000 for October to December 2013.
But there were extensive caveats behind that figure, because there was considerable doubt about whether respondents knew what a zero-hours contract was.
- Zero hours contracts - a work in progress, BBC.com, April 30, 2017.
3. The phrase “zero-hours contract” was virtually unheard of in Britain a decade ago. That’s not surprising, since in the years leading up to the start of the financial crisis in 2007 few people were employed on one.
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