‘Toothless ban‘

A government ban on exclusivity clauses in zer-hours contracts became law on 26 May 2015. But employment law experts say the measure is pointless.

There is no way for employees to enforce the ban, and since employers are not obliged to offer regular hours to these workers, any manager whose zero-hours staff regularly refuse shifts to work elsewhere can cut their hours without penalty.

The ban, said David Martyn of union solicitors Thompsons, is “the very definition of toothless”.

Steve Turner, assistant general secretary at the Unite general union, described the ban as a “joke”, which misses “the key point that zero hours confer fear and misery on those forced into them – no security, no protection, little dignity”.

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