I’m unclear as to wether this is allowed or not. Does anyone know in layman’s terms what the law is now? If I worked every Saturday and Sunday for three months then was given nothing for three months is that still allowed? I thought the laws were changing but it’s all unclear and vague.
What days would you be working the rest of the week ?
Also are you working to EU rules ?
Are you asking about legal driver hours?
Or about the amount of work offered to you by an employer? (such as an agency)
If the latter then the rules are changing, but it is best to look at the contracts you currently have with the employer for details about hours offered etc.
I only work weekends. I read that these zero hour contracts were to be changed so that if you weren’t given any work one week they would have to pay you an average of the hours worked over the previous 12 weeks
Nothing to do with drivers hours. This is about zero hours contracts
i think it was part of rayners plan and hasnt come to pass yet. Weather if it does come to pass affect agencies or not isnt clear what will happen though is all they will do is promise you to an hour a week so no real change apart from screwing up peoples lives even more.
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The new plans proposed for agency workers sound great on paper but as @cooper1203 points out, it might not be so good in reality.
My worry would be that they share the work out more, so everyone gets the minimum amount they’ve been promised.
We shall see! IF it ever happens.
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sharing the work is what they should be doing and in my experience do do. The issue comes when you have different drivers doing different contracts. Then it seems unfair that blogs has more work than charlie but its just that they are on different companies.
minimum hours will be the end of overtime rates as well because they would have to pay overtime over the contracted hours otherwise
I worded it wrongly. I meant that they’d spread the work more thinly, as they have to give a minimum amount to each agency worker.
at the moment, and until the law is actually changed, if you’re on a zero hours contract whether recognised, or default position of being with a casual worker with an agency,
then yes it’s totally legal for them to give as little work as they wish.
Successive giternments have promised to change the care home self funding rules. i.e at the moment your oldie needs to go in a nursing home, and owns their own home but little else. You have to sell the family home. And the farmers are complaining about inheritance tax on farms worth rather more than a 2 up 2 down in Macclesfield.
The giternments keep saying they will remove this glaring iniquity on the typical working class who have worked hard. Empty promises over 10 years or more. Tories said they’ll do it next week. Labour in opposition promised once they were in power, things will change.
Still waiting.
The Bill was in the again house last week. Official blurb.
Employment Rights Bill to boost productivity for British workers and grow the economy - GOV.UK
and https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10174/
mon ami, you have far higher expectations of the new tory, I mean labour party than I. Without painful capital investment, I can’t see enough new work being magic’d up from the bowels of the recession the rich have manipulated us into. I agree with a certain Rob, on some things, including the rich look after themselves, always have, always will. I just don’t suffer from the same conditioning where by I then hit out at those least responsible for the mess we’re in now. Give me a sniper rifle and I’ll start rectifying the recession. Soon trickle down a few billion
The above is the blurb from the Gov and the timeline of the Bill so far.
I haven’t commented on the likelihood of it being a roaring success or otherwise, however it is sure that by doing nothing , nothing will ever improve, so I do welcome the effort to improve things for workers.
It isn’t just about making new work, but also about ensuring that revenue is split more equitably between workers and owners.
Nothing wrong with profit both as a reward, and also for reinvestment, but there is too much difference between the haves and have-nots currently. Keeping labour on a hook for zero reward is not good for the majority of society and even the owners are members of society although many see themselves as being above the rest of us.
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