Negative Consequences of Zero Hour Contracts on Employees and Business

Topical Debate and
Reflection

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Use of zero hour contract has negative consequences to both employees and business.............3
Skills which have been developed during the debate..................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals.....................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Debate is a two way process in which the one part says against the topic and the another is for
the favour of the topic. Both the teams have chances to speak on the topic which has been given
to them so that they can put their views on it. Zero hour contract is a contract in which there is no
time boundation to the employees to do the work. This debate will be covered on the topic” Use
of Zero hour contract has negative consequences to employees as well as business”.
MAIN BODY
Use of zero hour contract has negative consequences to both employees and business
The Zero hour contract is a term which is used in UK and is defined the contract which is
between employee and the employer in which the employer is not bounded to provide any
minimum time to the employee(Wigfield and Koenka, 2020). Zero hour contract is not a proper
employment which is given to employees which is why they are not considered to be the proper
part of any organisation. The main difficulty which the employees have to face in context with
the zero hour contract is that there is no fixed income which can be given to the employees as it
wholly depends on the employers as to give them the work because at sometimes there is peak
load and at some point there is not. Every organisation provides the job to the employees in a
part time when there is any peak load or there is an excess work. The other main negative point
of zero hour contract is that the employers of the workplace can call the employees at any time
which does not gives them flexibility to spend time with their family or friends. It is because the
time which can be called by the employers may be at that point which is considered to be
unsociable hours. It is also seen that people who are engaged in the zero hour contract are also
working in other places or are having other responsibilities and in this type of contract employers
can call the employees at any time (GREGO,2019). On the side of business, business is
unpredictable on the side of employees that they are not bounded to accept the work which
means the employers and the business is always on risk in a zero hour contract. Thus, employers