Nancy Platts, Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, wants local people to fill in a survey to tell her how zero hours contracts are affecting them.
With families facing the biggest living standards crisis in a generation, Labour called a special debate in Parliament demanding action to stop rising insecurity at work under the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition, including the exploitative use of zero-hours contracts.
As many as 1 million workers are reported to be employed on such contracts and they are now used in one in five workplaces.
Last month Labour leader Ed Miliband MP announced plans to ban exploitative zero-hours contracts by:
• Banning employers from insisting that those on zero-hours contracts are available even when there is no guarantee of any work;
• Stopping zero-hours contracts that require workers to work exclusively for one firm
• Ending the misuse of zero hours contracts where employees are in practice working regular hours over a sustained period.
• Putting in place a code of practice on the use of zero-hours contracts.
Nancy says:
“Personally, I would like to see zero hour contracts banned completely. Under David Cameron we have seen rising insecurity at work, compounding the living standards crisis that working people in Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven are facing.
“We can’t have a situation where families and young people don’t know what their working hours are from one week to the next and don’t know whether they can afford their rent or the weekly shop. I hope that people will take the opportunity to let me know how these contracts are affecting them.”
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