Negative Impact of Zero Hour Contracts on Employees and Business

Topical Debate and
Reflection

Table of Contents
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................3
Individual Debate report.........................................................................................................3
Reflection Report....................................................................................................................5
References ......................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Employees are considered to be the main resource of the organisation, they lead business
towards continuous growth and success so it becomes essential for the companies to satisfy the
personal needs of their employees. But use of zero hour contract leads to creating negative
impact on the functioning and consequences for both employers and employees of the
organisation. The zero hour contract is the type of contract implemented where the employees
are not provided with the regular work by the employer also the employer is not restricted to
provide any minimum number of work hours to the employees, this lead to creating negative
impact on the employees automatically influencing overall functioning of the company (Burnet
and Lampert, 2019). This report is divided into two parts, the first part is the individual debate of
on the negative impact of working under zero hour contract and the other part is the personal
reflection of the learning outcomes.
Individual Debate report
The Debate topic is
“The use of zero-hour contracts has negative consequences to both employees
and the business”
The above mentioned was the topic for the debate, the debate was among the two groups
where one group has to talk in favour of the debate and the other group has to talk against the
topic. The topic highlights that employees working under the zero hour contract has to face
number of consequences which leads to creating dissatisfaction among them, there is effective
negative impact of working under the zero-hours contract was the main focus of both the team.
One group was in favour of this topic which has highlighted that there is negative impact of the
working under the zero hour contract whereas there group which was against the topic has
highlighted that there are some positive impact of working under the zero hour contract. In this
case the individual contribution was in favour of the topic which was also the member of the
winning team also. The winning team has highlighted that the working under the zero hour
contract leads to directly influencing the performance of the company (Denzin and Giardina,
2019). As an individual contribution in the debate certain points were highlighted which shows
that there is negative impact of the working under zero hour contract, it directly creates negative
consequences to both employees and business effectively. The certain points that were