Topical Debate and Reflection on Zero Hour Contract

Topical Debate and
Reflection

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Debate against Zero hour contract..............................................................................................3
Reflection on the skills which have been developed during the debate .....................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Debate is about having the discussion on the topic which includes the for and against in
which the individual talks and shares the thoughts(Howell, 2020) (Lawless, 2018). The
viewpoints of the individual are shared and this can happen in the meetings, in the academic
institution and in other places. The debates have the discussions about the data, theoretically
discussing the topics and the statistics which are presented to share the topic. The debates can be
in the form on informal or in a formal way but for the students the debates are always made in
the formal way. The topic which has been taken for the debate is the “Zero hours contract” in
which the work is not given on the basis of the work hours which the individual has spent but it
is being paid on the basis of the work which has been done by the individual. It can be called as
the contract between the employer and the employee in which the employer does not provide any
guarantee on work hours guarantee they are just being provided the work. The debate will be
explained on against the topic of Zero hours contract.
MAIN BODY
Debate against Zero hour contract
Zero hour contract is that contract in which the fixation of hours is not made and the
employee gets the payment on the basis of the work done. The zero hour contract is not a legal
term and is not accepted universally and is just considered to be as the arrangement of the casual
working. The zero hour contract is beneficial for only those jobs in which the extra work needs
to be done by employing the people. But the main difficulty in zero hour contract is that as there
is no fixation of the work hour for the employees and on this basis they might be given the less
amount of salary and the work which has been made is over that cost.
The other main problem with such type of work is that it might not be possible that the
jobs for such work are vacant because the zero hour work is given when there is a peak or high
demand of products of any business(Wolfram, 2019). Also the income which is provided in the
Zero work hour is also not fixed because it can vary on an everyday basis and the salary which
the person is receiving is also not permanent. The employees who are on the regular basis gets
the extra benefit which includes the extra sick leave, such other benefits which the part time