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Employment Status: Practicalities of zero-hours contracts
Sarah Booth looks at how to ensure that zero-hours agreements are legally enforceable without exploiting workers ‘This article considers the practicalities of using zero-hours contracts and ensuring that agreements are legally enforceable, commercially viable and confer the appropriate obligations on both parties without being exploitative of workers.’ In recent months employment practitioners could not have …
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