Less than five months ago, the post below appeared on a Labour Party feed.... but now (presumably under pressure from employers), the Party has decided to 'reform' zero hours contracts instead.
While one can hope zero hours contracts will be constrained this is not the same as 'banning' them - whatever you may think of the reasoning for retaining some from of ZHCs, this is yet one more gift to the Greens in the Gorton & Denton by-election.
@ChrisMayLA6 *and* the alleged 'ban' was nothing of the sort- what they were suggesting was only to ban 'exploitative' ZHCs, which is easily dodged by just defining all ZHCs as 'not exploitative', and if that's too vague, it was also going to allow such where the worker accepts the 'flexibility' of a ZHC, at which point it's very clear that any potential employee who didn't accept said flexability would suddenly find the role was no longer available.
Basically, any suggestion that Labour are going to do anything about ZHCs is a lie today, it was a lie when they first pitched it, and it's been a lie all the time in between.
Yes, sadly this is the conclusion that one ends up coming to... sad, but hardly surprising as regards the current Labour Party
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