Expert employment lawyers have called the UK government’s zero hour contract legislation “toothless” with unions stating that the government’s laws on the matter “totally miss the point”.
A new guide on managing bereavement in the workplace has been published by workplace expert Acas.
A consultation has been launched this week to investigate the best way of proceeding to eradicate the problem of exclusivity clauses in zero hour contracts.
In the recent case of Prophet v Huggett [2014] EWCA Civ 1013, the Court of Appeal in England & Wales made it clear that it would not read in words to ensure the efficacy of a non-competition restrictive covenant, where the language of the provision is ‘truly ambiguous’ and ‘admits clear alternatives as to the sense the parties intended to achieve’.
"At the end of the season, I wanted to stay for four or five days with my brother before I flew to prepare for the World Cup with Ivory Coast... except that City did not want to give me a few days".
An interim report published by the Scottish Affairs Parliamentary Committee has found there is much to be done to protect people on zero hours contracts in Scotland. Although it is recognised that zero hours contracts and other forms of casual labour can benefit workers and employers, the Committee finds that in the majority of cases zero hours contracts need not, and should not, be used at all.
The CIPD has recommended that the Government ban employers from using exclusivity clauses for zero hours contract workers unless they can demonstrate a compelling business reason for using them.
The CIPD has recently released initial findings from research conducted into the use of zero hour contracts in the UK.
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