Reply to: What jobs do UK workers actually do?

[vetran]

Are we sure Diseasex isn't Diane Abbott?

Big mouth, chip on shoulder & crap at figures

could be!

[squarepeg]

I knew you would pick that up. Couldn't care less about exact number..

Hope you're not writing accounting software :-)

[VectraMan]

Diseasex can muck up the sums more convincingly.

Are we sure Diseasex isn't Diane Abbott?

[vetran]

That job is already taken - by Diane Abbott

Diseasex can muck up the sums more convincingly.

[OwlHoot]

With your levels of arithmetic prowess, perhaps you might want to consider staying on in the UK as an accounting advisor to Jeremy Corbyn.

That job is already taken - by Diane Abbott

[shaunbhoy]

I knew you would pick that up. Couldn't care less about exact number..

With your levels of arithmetic prowess, perhaps you might want to consider staying on in the UK as an accounting advisor to Jeremy Corbyn.

[Whorty]

An hour? - more like 30 minutes...

You're working too hard

[SueEllen]

Well according to the article in the OP about 900k people are on 0-hour contracts. How many of them are abusive is hard to tell, but I doubt it's that high. My example was extreme for visualisation purposes.

In reality I believe most of the people on 0-hour contracts are on them by choice, because it suits their needs/lifestyle and not because they can't find full time employment.

The main stories of abuse are from large companies like Sports Direct and Amazon who employ people via agencies full time, and from stories about carers whose agencies provide services to local authorities.

[sal]

How wide spread is this though? I was on what would now be called a zero hours contract for about 4-years while doing my first degree. It was evening shifts - up to four a week. There was always work and very rarely less than four eveings.

Well according to the article in the OP about 900k people are on 0-hour contracts. How many of them are abusive is hard to tell, but I doubt it's that high. My example was extreme for visualisation purposes.

In reality I believe most of the people on 0-hour contracts are on them by choice, because it suits their needs/lifestyle and not because they can't find full time employment.

[The_Equalizer]

Simples - There is work for 20 people in the warehouse, you employ 30 on 0-hour contracts, the first 20 to show up get to work, the rest are sent home. All 30 have a job.

How wide spread is this though? I was on what would now be called a zero hours contract for about 4-years while doing my first degree. It was evening shifts - up to four a week. There was always work and very rarely less than four eveings.

[sal]

?could anyone explain to me how zero hour contracts actually work?

i don't understand how they factor this into more jobs available when some weeks you might only work 1 or 3 days or in other months you might only work for 2 weeks? where is the stability?

Simples - There is work for 20 people in the warehouse, you employ 30 on 0-hour contracts, the first 20 to show up get to work, the rest are sent home. All 30 have a job.

[MrMarkyMark]

That's what you get with many on-shored workers - overpromise, under delivery and attention to detail is not a strong point..

I knew you would pick that up. Couldn't care less about exact number..

[lucythewolf]

?could anyone explain to me how zero hour contracts actually work?

i don't understand how they factor this into more jobs available when some weeks you might only work 1 or 3 days or in other months you might only work for 2 weeks? where is the stability?

[diseasex]

10 minutes is 10% of an hour?

I knew you would pick that up. Couldn't care less about exact number..

[vetran]

That's what you get with many on-shored workers - overpromise, under delivery and attention to detail is not a strong point..

Beat me to it!