tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post7125420974258640256..comments2024-03-28T09:22:36.967+13:00Comments on Offsetting Behaviour: Zero-hourEric Cramptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-45733331324890634082015-01-29T15:32:27.819+13:002015-01-29T15:32:27.819+13:00That is one of the objections raised to zero hours...That is one of the objections raised to zero hours contracts.<br /><br />The point is, if you're not getting much work from an existing employer for whatever reason, you will quit and goes elsewhere.<br /><br />Zero hours contracts are most common in sectors with high job turnover in any case.<br /><br />The restaurant sector and similar retailing area welcomed 90 day trials when they are introduced because the turnover is so high of employees in that sector that fewer than normal establish regular pattern of employment and in jobs in which there were in long enough to build up sets of referees for job applications in the future in the way people with regular office jobs at the same employer for several years do.<br /><br />The 90 day trial period was an alternative to not hiring someone who changed jobs a lot recently. Who gains from that?Jim Rosehttp://utopiayouarestandinginit.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-32206525631805019822015-01-29T15:28:20.086+13:002015-01-29T15:28:20.086+13:00Lovely story about the advantages of zero hours co...Lovely story about the advantages of zero hours contracts, especially when it's wet. I hated playing cricket in the wet.<br /><br />Many contracts contain a restraint of trade clause, either explicitly or implicitly in terms both not working for the competition, or simply not showing up from work exhausted from your last job earlier that day.<br /><br />People will sign these if the wage premium may get offsets the disadvantage of giving up the option.Jim Rosehttp://utopiayouarestandinginit.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-66718210114150794202015-01-29T14:27:22.727+13:002015-01-29T14:27:22.727+13:00The only 'solution' to outlawing zero-hour...The only 'solution' to outlawing zero-hour working contracts, is for businesses to either close-up shop or pay their staff less overall to compensate greater costs.<br /><br /><br />Because it will mean all hands have to be on deck for even when they're not really needed, and that cost must likewise be compensated.<br /><br /><br />When will the political left get it? No free lunch.<br /><br /><br />What Andrew Little should really be preaching--if he's honest about achieving a better NZ for the poor(er)--is ACT policies. Alas, he can't! He's Labour :(<br /><br /><br />Economic growth in a respectably tight job market solves ALL the real problems.Andrew Atkinhttp://andrewatkin.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/the-real-deal-housing-in-new-zealand.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-76805426994345378442015-01-29T14:23:02.781+13:002015-01-29T14:23:02.781+13:00Once upon a time I worked in a "0 hours contr...Once upon a time I worked in a "0 hours contract". It rather suited everyone as it was an outdoors job and difficult to get much done in rainy weather. So, on a wet day the boss did not have to pay me, and I did not have to soaked - I think it suited us both although probably illegal at the time. As I understand the main problem in some overseas places are those contracts which forbid the employee from doing anything else if they are not working for the employer?VMCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-52125834262846538552015-01-29T13:42:06.703+13:002015-01-29T13:42:06.703+13:00I have considered whether another reason for zero ...I have considered whether another reason for zero hour contracts might be as an alternative to more flexible employment conditions. In short, if you have the option to give one of your employees zero hours consistently, you might not have to fire him. And firing staff can be a significant problem. So, if you were perhaps a McDonalds franchise, you could just hire a bunch of students, put them all on zero hour contracts, and then give the most hours to the best workers. The ones who never get any hours would presumably quit after a while.PaulLhttp://Technpol.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com