Bob Arctor Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 The point is one week you may do 40 hours or so the next 10 hour so claiming anything would be difficult It plays havoc with housing benefit. Every time there is a change in your income your housing benefit claim is suspended pending a recalculation. If your wage changes every week and you notify the housing benefit people of this, as you are obliged to do, your housing benefit award is always delayed by several weeks and it is very hard to know how much of your earnings to keep back to pay rent. Landlords hate it and it often increases the risk of homelessness. ---------- Post added 03-03-2017 at 22:32 ---------- NO they won't unless you have personal experience. They can't/won't force you to apply for any job you don't want or can't take. I've been unemployed and never been asked to apply for one or sanctioned for not applying for it. Part right and part very wrong. On JSA you are free to turn down work that would make you worse off, including a ZHC (remember this the next time you read a quote from the DWP stating that no one is worse off in work, they know it's not true). BUT they can and do force people to take work they don't want under threat of sanction. I think you must have been unemployed pre-2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricgem2002 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 my lads worked here for over 4 years , first 2years for an agency on a 0 hours contract . in all that time hes never worked less than 36 hours a week . don't believe all you hear about sports direct wheres your lad live ? is he on the books now? has he been offered a workplace pension ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 wheres your lad live ? is he on the books now? has he been offered a workplace pension ? lives in Sheffield , yes and yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricgem2002 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 lives in Sheffield , yes and yes glad to hear it but dont you think he could have been on the books from the start ?while he was on the zhc how did he manage to pay his rent/mortgage etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 glad to hear it but dont you think he could have been on the books from the start ?while he was on the zhc how did he manage to pay his rent/mortgage etc? that's debatable , already said he worked fulltime ,always has . why the interest ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna B Posted March 4, 2017 Author Share Posted March 4, 2017 that's debatable , already said he worked fulltime ,always has . why the interest ? Because it seems this was a full time job offered on a 0 hours contract, thus avoiding employer's obligations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin-H Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Are you saying people prefer zero hours contracts? According to this, they do, yes.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25098984 "Only 58% of UK employees said there were happy with their work-life balance, compared to 65% of those on zero-hours contracts." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil752 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 that's debatable , already said he worked fulltime ,always has . why the interest ? the only thorght i have is that if the can provide and i agree they do at sd full time employment why go down the 0 hours contract route. There is no security of employment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewheeldave Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 According to this, they do, yes.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25098984 "Only 58% of UK employees said there were happy with their work-life balance, compared to 65% of those on zero-hours contracts." That does not say 'people prefer zero hours contracts', or anything like it. It could be that those on zero hour contracts just happen to be more care-free and happy, which you would expect, given that those who have more obligations to meet (families, mortgages etc) simply could not get by on unstable zero-hour contract, and would have to find full-time work. (or be on benefits, and therefore not included in the poll). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willman Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) Have you been unemployed recently? Yes. Never was i advised i had to A) take any job that was on the jobmarket b) apply for any job i didn't want to do c)sanctioned for a or b. ---------- Post added 04-03-2017 at 08:57 ---------- It plays havoc with housing benefit. Every time there is a change in your income your housing benefit claim is suspended pending a recalculation. If your wage changes every week and you notify the housing benefit people of this, as you are obliged to do, your housing benefit award is always delayed by several weeks and it is very hard to know how much of your earnings to keep back to pay rent. Landlords hate it and it often increases the risk of homelessness. ---------- Post added 03-03-2017 at 22:32 ---------- Part right and part very wrong. On JSA you are free to turn down work that would make you worse off, including a ZHC (remember this the next time you read a quote from the DWP stating that no one is worse off in work, they know it's not true). BUT they can and do force people to take work they don't want under threat of sanction. I think you must have been unemployed pre-2010. I'm out of work now along with a friend in IT. Neither of us have suffered either and we've been unemployed since September. I have agreed to search for work,apply for jobs and attend interviews - doing all that gets me benefits. If you don't want the job don't apply - simple. Now back to zero hour contracts - what exactly is the problem with them? Edited March 4, 2017 by willman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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