Negative Consequences of Zero-Hour Contracts on Employees and Business

Debate and Reflection

Table of Contents
Task-1 Debate..................................................................................................................................3
Task 2 Reflection.............................................................................................................................5
Gibb's Model of Reflection....................................................................................................5
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals:................................................................................................................9

Task-1 Debate
“The use of zero-hour contracts has negative consequences to both employees and
the business”
Zero-hour contracts are the contracts that do not have any fixed time of job. It is an
employment contract under which the employee is not provided any minimum working hours. It
is seen that the employee is paid according to the work done by him. It is primary used in United
Kingdoms. Yes, it is rightly said that Zero-hour contract has a negative impact on the employees
as well as the business (Heyes and et.al., 2018). It is noticed that it as a formal job has defined
number of working hours. All the employees know about the time duration in which they have to
complete the work that is being assigned to them. The work duration motivates them, to
complete the assigned work in time. It is observed that an organisation should always set the
total working hours. So that there is time management. The employees also have their own life.
They have their personal work for which they need to know the office hours. It is essential for
the employers and higher authority to tell them about the total time in which the have to work.
The employees of the organisation has to face various issues due to the provision of zero
hour contract. As they are deprived of various benefits such as extra pay on over time. And a
major issue that is associated here is related to leavers. The employees of the organisation so not
get any benefit due to this zero-hour contracts. As, the employers are not obliged to pay them
any leave or workplace benefits. The major disadvantages are faced by the employees. All the
employees do the job for the purpose of income. As they want to earn and feed their families.
But in regard to zero-hour contracts there are no fixed working hours and because of which no
pay is fixed (Banaji and Mejias, 2017). The payment given to employees vary according to the
situation and work that is available in the organisation. This directly impacts the employee. They
do not like to work at such a place where there is no fixed pay given to them. It is also seen that
thy are not motivated as they do not know about the duration of time they have to work. How can
a person work without knowing the hours. It causes problem for them and that has impact on the
employee's productivity. It is seen that all the employees are not motivated to work when they do
not have pressure and assigned working hours. The employees are unable to give time to family
and friends. The social life of the person comes in danger while doing jobs in which there are no
working hours fixed. The employee's keep on waiting for the call and work to be assigned. There
life becomes restricted and problematic (Diprose, 2017). Sometimes, the issue is related to