I've always been in favour of self-employment although I can see that plenty amongst us would find the prospect daunting. I agree that there is room for zero hours contracts in the current employment set-up but I suppose there is a danger of this being used to make it easy to hire and fire people whose skills are not necessarily sought after in the wider employment market. Still, people should be free to negotiate on their own behalf or seek the protection of a union if they so wish. Banning things is the mark of totalitarians and tyrants. Encouraging good treatment of worthy employees would be a better way to help workers in my opinion.
I've always been in favour of self-employment although I can see that plenty amongst us would find the prospect daunting. I agree that there is room for zero hours contracts in the current employment set-up but I suppose there is a danger of this being used to make it easy to hire and fire people whose skills are not necessarily sought after in the wider employment market. Still, people should be free to negotiate on their own behalf or seek the protection of a union if they so wish. Banning things is the mark of totalitarians and tyrants. Encouraging good treatment of worthy employees would be a better way to help workers in my opinion.
I agree. The rate of zero hour employment is pretty low among 25-65 year old at less than 2.2%.