Zero hours and casual contracts

New and updated

• Types of contract

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to take into account the Government's announcement in its Good work plan, on the right to request a stable contract.

• New right for workers to request a more stable contract

  Type:

  Legal timetable

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

• Ireland on track to end zero-hour contracts

  Date:

  14 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  The Irish government has said it will end most zero-hour contracts in the country by summer as its Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill completed its final stages in the Seanad (senate) earlier this week.

• Nearly half of zero-hours workers want regular shifts

  Date:

  8 October 2018

  Type:

  News

  Almost half of people on zero-hours contracts want to work more hours and in a more regular shift pattern, but almost the same proportion are satisfied with the hours they work.

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

  Date:

  21 June 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  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).

• Most employers back idea for stable contract requests

  Date:

  1 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  Two-thirds of employers back the introduction of a right for agency workers and zero-hours contract workers to request a stable contract.

• Hermes "coerced" staff into misleading HMRC, manager claims

  Date:

  4 May 2018

  Type:

  News

  HM Revenue and Customs is reportedly investigating allegations that delivery company Hermes trained managers to mislead tax officials about how it treated workers.

• Zero hours contracts increase by 100,000 as workers more aware

  Date:

  23 April 2018

  Type:

  News

  The number of people on zero hour contracts in the UK increased by around 100,000 last year, according to the Office for National Statistics.

• MPs urge ministers to speed up gig economy measures

  Date:

  20 April 2018

  Type:

  News

  MPs have accused the Government of being too slow to act on recommendations that would protect the rights of gig economy workers and people on zero-hour contracts.

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

  Type:

  FAQs