Zero hours and casual contracts

New and updated

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

  Date:

  9 August 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

• 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).

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

  Type:

  FAQs

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

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to include information on Roddis v Sheffield Hallam University, concerning the comparator for a claim under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000, by a lecturer on a zero-hours contract.

• Draft a zero hours contract

  Type:

  Tasks

• Zero hours contract

  Type:

  Employment glossary

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.