Zero-hours contracts are on road to nowhere

Difficult problems in difficult times often call for difficult solutions.

Many companies are going through hard and inconsistent trading. Many are hanging on by their fingernails and hoping that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Keeping all of your employees on a full-time, permanent basis when your trading patterns are inconsistent, at best, can be a license to go broke very quickly.

In such circumstances companies can and do introduce flexible employment hours and contracts in an effort to meet trading patterns and sales without going to the wall.