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Zero Hours Contracts BIS Guidance
Zero Hours Contracts BIS Guidance The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has issued guidance for employers on the use of zero hours contracts. It provides guidance on what a zero hours con...
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Zero Hours Contracts: Exclusivity Clauses Banned From Today
Zero Hours Contracts: Exclusivity Clauses Banned From Today The ban on exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts has come into force today. Provisions of a zero hours contracts which prohibit the wo...
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Zero Hours Contracts: Draft Anti-Avoidance Provisions Published
Zero Hours Contracts: Draft Anti-Avoidance Provisions Published The Government has published draft Regulations which give employees working on zero hours contracts the right to claim unfair dismissa...
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Protections for Zero Hours Workers in Force
...hours. The Exclusivity Terms in Zero Hours Contracts (Redress) Regulations 2015 came into force on 11 January 2016. The Regulations give employees working on zero hours contracts the right to cla...
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Zero Hours Contracts: Government Outlines Proposals for Reform
Zero Hours Contracts: Government Outlines Proposals for Reform The Government has announced that it plans to ban exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts so that those employed on zero hours contr...
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Zero Hours Contracts: Tackling Avoidance of Exclusivity Ban
...zero hours contracts, either by offering a very low number of guaranteed hours (so they were no longer a zero hours contract) or by offering no work or fewer hours to those who undertook work elsewhe...
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Ban on Zero Hours Contracts Exclusivity Clauses: Government Considers Measures to Tackle Avoidance
...Zero Hours Contracts Exclusivity Clauses: Government Considers Measures to Tackle Avoidance Following on from the Government’s announcement that it plans to ban exclusivity clauses in zero hours contr...
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Election Manifestos: Issues for Employers
...zero hours contracts either a full or part-time secure contract after one year, if the workers involved request it there must be no exclusivity clauses in any zero hours contract workers on zero ho...
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Good Work Plan: Government consults on measures to address one-sided flexibility
...hours claimedIt would cause significant adverse change to the businessThere are exceptional, unforeseen or emergency circumstancesAverage hours worked were affected by a temporary situation which no l...
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Ban on exclusivity clauses for low-paid workers in force
...zero hours workers’ contracts since May 2015. The Exclusivity Terms for Zero Hours Workers (Unenforceability and Redress) Regulations 2022 extend this to low-income workers whose guaranteed net averag...
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Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 Receives Royal Assent
...zero hours contracts. Provisions on public sector exit payments. None of the provisions are currently in force.
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Queen’s Speech: Employment Aspects
...zero hours contracts. No further information on its proposals has been provided; tackle national minimum wage abuses by imposing higher penalties on employers who fail to pay the national minimum wag...
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Number of new and expectant mothers forced to leave jobs has doubled
...zero-hours workers; and protection from redundancy until six months after a return to work. The Government has said that it will respond to the report “in due course”.
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Labour’s 2017 Election Manifesto – For the Many, Not the Few
...Zero hours and short hours contracts Labour will ban zero hours contracts. It will also introduce legislation entitling those employed on short hours contracts (under which they are a guaranteed on...
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Government Launches Inquiry into Future of the World of Work
...zero-hour contracts, definitions of flexible contracts, the role of the Low Pay Commission, and minimum wage enforcement? 8. What is the role of trade unions in representing the self-employed and thos...
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“Change Britain’s Future”: the Liberal Democrats' 2017 Manifesto
...Zero hours contracts and the gig economy The LibDems will stamp out the abuse of zero hours contracts and create a right for workers to request a fixed term contract. They will also consult on intro...
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Harpur Trust v Brazel – are you calculating holiday pay correctly?
...zero-hours basis so was paid only for the work she carried out. She did not work a full working week and did not work during school holidays. Ms Brazel was entitled to the usual 5.6 weeks’ holiday per...
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Government announces “Good Work Plan” for enhancing rights and protections at work
...zero-hour contracts and will be asking the Low Pay Commission to consider this. It will also introduce a right for all workers, not just zero-hours and agency workers, to request a “more stable”...
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Taylor Review Good Work Report Published
...hours which are not guaranteed, so that businesses can continue to use zero-hours and short-hours workers but be required to pay for their flexibility; The pay reference per...
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Corbyn v Smith: employment law proposals
...zero hours contracts, provide employment rights from day one, repeal the Trade Union Act 2016 and abolish employment tribunal fees. Owen Smith’s other proposals Owen Smith has announced 25 workplac...