Earlier this year, over 35,000 people responded to our previous zero hours contracts consultation. And, as part of the Small Business Bill, we committed to ban so-called exclusivity clauses in this part of contracts.
We are now seeking your views on the best ways to approach that ban, in particular the mechanisms that we can put in place to prevent avoidance of the ban.
Specifically, we want your views on:
The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill has introduced a provision that will ban the use of exclusivity clauses in contracts which do not guarantee any hours (so called zero hours contracts). However, stakeholders have raised concerns, stating that employers could potentially sidestep the exclusivity ban, for example by offering contracts that guarantee just one hour of work. Therefore this consultation seeks views on tackling avoidance
After considering the responses, the Government will use the views submitted to help inform the implementation of the zero hours contracts provisions in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill.
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