{"id":1599,"date":"2014-05-06T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","slug":"zero-hour-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/05\/06\/zero-hour-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero hour contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/rel\/lmac\/contracts-with-no-guaranteed-hours\/zero-hours-contracts\/art-zero-hours.html\">\u00a0UK Office for National Statistics<\/a>\u00a0has just released some initial data on the number of individuals employed on zero hours contracts.\u00a0 It includes definitions of the term, data by gender and age and whether the individuals wanted more work.<\/p>\n<p>For further information on this topic try these resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An excellent starting point is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/briefing-papers\/SN06553.pdf\">\u00a0House of Commons Library\u00a0Standard Note: SN\/BT\/6553<\/a>\u00a0on Zero-hours contracts. \u00a0This outlines the legal implications, relationship with the national minimum wage, and highlights relevant parliamentary debates and readings.<\/li>\n<li>In December 2013 the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/zero-hours-employment-contracts\">UK government released a consultation paper\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In response to this the CIPD: \u00a0Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development has published research on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipd.co.uk\/hr-resources\/research\/zero-hours-contracts-myth-reality.aspx\">Myths and the Reality<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworkfoundation.com\/Events\/308\/Flexibility-or-insecurity-Exploring-the-rise-in-zero-hours-contracts\">Flexibility or Insecurity? Exploring the rise in Zero Hours Contracts<\/a>\u00a0is a podcast and blog posting from a Work Foundation event held in July 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Another recent research report is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.resolutionfoundation.org\/media\/media\/downloads\/A_Matter_of_Time_-_The_rise_of_zero-hours_contracts_final_1.pdf\">\u00a0A Matter of Time:\u00a0The Rise of Zero-Hours Contracts\u00a0<\/a>from the Resolution Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>From a union perspective\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/economic-issues\/labour-market\/workplace-issues\/employment-rights\/insecure-zero-hours-work-no-longer\">the TUC<\/a>\u00a0has reports and comment on a range of worker\u2019s issues. \u00a0A recent report\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/Casualisationandlowpay.docx\">Casualisation and Low Pay<\/a>\u00a0found that the majority of workers on zero-hours contracts were paid less than the living wage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0UK Office for National Statistics\u00a0has just released some initial data on the number of individuals employed on zero hours contracts.\u00a0 It includes definitions of the term, data by gender and age and whether the individuals wanted more work. For further information on this topic try these resources: An excellent starting point is\u00a0House of Commons Library\u00a0Standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-labour-market-studies","tag-labour-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}