Pulse Healthcare v Carewatch Services Ltd [2012] UKEAT/0123/12

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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Non-Employment Arrangements: What’s the status?

Susie Al-Qassab analyses recent case law and other developments affecting businesses that have significant numbers of non-employees in their workforce ‘We are seeing a backlash against the cynical and widespread shoehorning of employees into non-employment arrangements in order to avoid rights, protections and cost.’ This article is a round up of recent decisions and developments …

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Terms And Conditions: The rise of zero-hours contracts

Luke Blackburn weighs up the pros and cons of a controversial method for employers to cope with peaks and troughs in demand for labour ‘In zero-hours contracts the employer has almost all of the flexibility of using casual workers, but no obligation to pay anything where no work is available.’ With the recession putting even …

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Employment Status: Keeping it casual

Susie Al-Qassab considers the consequences of three recent decisions in the EAT on the mutuality of obligation test The fact that the claimants worked rostered hours to which they could object if they posed them a problem, did not preclude mutuality of obligation. To establish employee status and enjoy the rights and protections only available …

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