Introduction to Human Resources Management

Introduction to Human
Resources Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Zero Hour contract is the very small part in the labour market of UK, but now it has
across range of occupations and sectors in different organisation. It is a type of atypical
working arrangements in the companies which have typically increases in used 5 years
(Allmer, 2019). There is much greater public awareness of their existence. It is become
difficult to maintain its value as because of no fixed definition in the industry and having very
less information in the public. The chosen company for this assignment is McDonald,
founded in 1955. The Headquarter in Chicago, United States, and CEO is Chis Kempczinski.
In this assignment the included the overall management report of Zero contract Hour which
basically includes the aim of the assignment, its legal regulation, cost and benefit to the
company and in last the recommendation is provided to outline the cost, timescale and
prioritisation of the management report.
MAIN BODY
Zero hour contract is not a recognised legal term, so there is no particular definition of
the Zero hour contract. It is defined as that the employer is not bonded to provide to any
minimum working hours. And the workers are not obliged to accept the working hour’s
offers of the respected company. It has comes under the national minimum wages act, 1988,
UK workers operating under stand by time, on- call time and downtime, all these works are
paid the minimum wages for hours worked. Traditionally, they were used to employ seasonal,
agriculture and hospitality workers as their working hours is not fixed and their permanent
hours are might be not available.
Aim of the report
 The main aim of this report is to investigate the profile of the workers who are worked
on the basis of Zero Hours Contracts.
 To evaluate the nature of the contract in terms of length, permanency and legal rules
of the contract.
 Identifying the cost and benefit for the respected company while dealing with the
issues in the company.
 Identify the impacts of Zero Hours Contracts mainly in terms of the accommodation
and health effects.
 To identify the outline of the cost, timescale and priority based recommendation to the
company.
Why Use Zero Hour Contract
Organisation like McDonald are using Zero hours contract, as because of the working
hours are most suited to the different situations where work changes unexpectedly and also in
the organisation like McDonald where employees cannot gives guarantee on work (Dalal,
2018). The main reason for doing this contract is in respect on employers, they got the
flexibility to manage the fluctuation in demand, whereas the two-third of the employers are
citing this contract on the different basis of criteria. And for the employees they used for
getting the flexibility for individuals. Another important reason is using this contract in the
respected organisation it help in reducing the cost and avoiding the specific costs with the
reference of company.