if 90% of sports direct employees are on zero hours

tir21

contracts then does that mean that there are times when the company operates with 10% of its maximum workforce?

Flyonthewall

I highly doubt it. Most of them will, I'm sure, do a number of hours each week. Considering all the employees they must have, 90% would be a lot of people and there's not likely to be any point when not a single person will be able to work the hours, leaving just the 10% to do it all.

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I worked for an agency employed by sports direct and none of the contracted sports direct staff where on zero hour, all of them where full time.

Tallaght

Legal challenge to zero hours contracts launched against Sports Direct.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/legal-challenge-to-zero-hours-contracts-launched-against-sports-direct-8750104.html

Takeaway_Addict

Tallaght wrote: »

Legal challenge to zero hours contracts launched against Sports Direct.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/legal-challenge-to-zero-hours-contracts-launched-against-sports-direct-8750104.html

Be interesting the result but can't see how they are doing anything illegal if they are observing the employment laws of the land who allow this.

As I said before, the success 38 degrees claim seem tenuous at best to me.

Nicky101

be interested to see if the outcome sets a precedent.

AP007

tir21 wrote: »

contracts then does that mean that there are times when the company operates with 10% of its maximum workforce?

Zero hours don't mean they are working. If 10% have a full time contract they are working all the time and the ones on zero work when needed.

bluenoseam

It's zero hour contracts, but you'll find some of them do work a "decent" amount of hours, just without the contractual safety to protect them.

But we all know what Sports Direct are like & frankly I think "shocking" is an understatement.

Takeaway_Addict

How can the law stop it though?
Zero hours are banned=1 hour contracts coming in force and so on

Southend1

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

How can the law stop it though?
Zero hours are banned=1 hour contracts coming in force and so on

I read that the Labour were considering giving employees on zero hours the right to a contract based on the number of hours worked in a certain period, if they win the next election.

jacques_chirac

Tallaght wrote: »

Legal challenge to zero hours contracts launched against Sports Direct.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/legal-challenge-to-zero-hours-contracts-launched-against-sports-direct-8750104.html

The challenge is not against nil hour contracts, it is against those on nil hour contracts having less rights than others - there is a big difference.