The Minister for Workplace Relations announced restrictions on zero hours contracts this morning on New Zealand television. Practices which will be prohibited:
Employers not committing any hours of work, but expecting employees to be available when required
Employers cancelling a shift without providing reasonable notice or compensation to the employee
Employers putting unreasonable restrictions on secondary employment of employees
Employers making unreasonable deductions from employees’ wages.
The number of workers on zero hours contracts has certainly exploded in the UK, going from about 100,000 to 700,000 in about five years. The UK data also suggests that most of these contracts will be in the accommodation and food services sector.
Zero hours contracts is creative destruction at work in the labour market, sweeping away obsolete working time arrangements, mostly in the retail services sector.
Zero hours contracts is creative destruction at work in the labour market, sweeping away obsolete working arrangements mostly in the retail services sector.
New Zealand data is hard to come by on zero hours contracts. Data on working hours arrangements is in the Survey of Working Life which is conducted every couple of years. This survey doesn’t give any data directly on the prevalence of zero hours contracts, but it does tell you how many people are temporary employees and among these, who…
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