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Zero Hours Contracts - Pleased or Not


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If you are offered ZOC work at the Job centre and refuse, your benefit is stopped.

You have obviously never been in this situation.

 

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Every Day?!!!

Do you by any chance read The Daily Mail, the paper that supported Hitler's fascist Nazi party?

 

 

 

 

 

What planet are you on?

 

I'm self employed so do work a zero hours contract.

No I don't read any papers but I occasionally come across stories on line from a large variety of sources including the DM and every other national or local paper.

The one in which British people are free to choose the nature of their employment.

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It's pretty simple really. If you want to employ folk on zero hours contracts you just make sure that their contract finishes after 10 weeks. They return to the dole and you employ the next person on a zero hours contract. Pretty straightforward really. Well done Ed for coming up with another totally useless proposal.

ah but that's not allowed to happen with these companies :nono:

 

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The one in which British people are free to choose the nature of their employment.
not if they are signing on they cant :roll:
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ah but that's not allowed to happen with these companies :nono:

 

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not if they are signing on they cant :roll:

 

In what why can they not choose, the benefits office don't force anyone to work somewhere they don't want to work.

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I seem to have heard it would be after so many weeks you get the right to ask and then after so many more weeks you get the right to a job.

Absolutely barmy he is. He has never had to make ends meet in a business, and cant have listened to many people who run a business. He lives in la la land when the pay comes in whether he performs or not.

 

if you have employed someone essentially full time for 12 weeks then that suggests that you have enough work to support a full time permanent worker, so why not employ one?

 

people genuinely using zero hours contract labour, and similar things, to cover sesonal peaks in demand shouldn't be afraid of this. in fact, they should welcome it as it should drive many of the employers who abuse them out of the market.

 

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Most zero hours contract jobs would cease to exist if the employer was forced to offer a full time job. So the alternative is to survive on the dole.

 

why would the jobs cease to exist? the work would still need to be done, so who would do it?

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How does that remove choice, you can choose to sign on and follow the rules they impose or you can choose not to, you can choose to accept a ZHC or you can chose not to.

 

How ridiculous is that statement?....Choose to sign on, or choose not to?....Choose to get some benefits or live on fresh air....

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How ridiculous is that statement?....Choose to sign on, or choose not to?....Choose to get some benefits or live on fresh air....

 

Its a choice, choosing between between two or more possibilities.

 

Choose to sign on and follow the rules or choose not to sign on and find an alternative way to provide for yourself.

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How does that remove choice, you can choose to sign on and follow the rules they impose or you can choose not to, you can choose to accept a ZHC or you can chose not to.

 

Are you a teenager working on a school project? :suspect:

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