Zero hours and casual contracts

New and updated

• Type:

  How to

  How to employ an individual on a casual or zero hours contract

  Updated to reflect that the right to a written statement of employment particulars is extended to workers and that the holiday pay reference period has changed for workers without normal working hours, effective from 6 April 2020.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Types of contract

  Updated to reflect that the 2021 Queen's speech did not mention an Employment Bill or the right to request a more predictable contract.

• Date:

  9 August 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  Court of Appeal rules on calculation of holiday pay for term-time, zero hours workers

  In The Harpur Trust v Brazel, the Court of Appeal held that holiday pay for "part-year workers" should not be calculated on a pro rata basis, but by applying the approach set out in s.224 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and calculating average weekly remuneration over the previous 12 weeks.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  New right for workers to request a more stable contract

  All workers will have the right to request a more predictable and stable contractual working pattern after 26 weeks' continuous service.

• Date:

  21 June 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  Part-time workers: Zero hours lecturer could compare himself to permanent full-time lecturer

  In Roddis v Sheffield Hallam University, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a lecturer employed under a zero hours contract was employed under the same type of contract as a permanent full-time lecturer for the purposes of his claim of less favourable treatment under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1551).

• Type:

  FAQs

  When calculating their gender pay gap, how should employers treat staff on zero hours contracts?

• Type:

  Tasks

  Draft a zero hours contract

• Type:

  Tasks

  Draft a casual contract

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Zero hours contract

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Casual worker

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.