zero hour help please.

jonnygee2

so very regular and getting paid overtime on his wage slip for extra hours

If he has overtime then that also implies there is a basic wage somewhere? Or is it that the original contract says up to a certain number of hours is payed at x and then from there at y?

There could still be rights, though. Why is the work going to co-workers and not him? Are they actually employed on fixed hours? And what is the nature of the work and how much control does the employer have over it?

It sounds likely to me he is an employee on a zero hour contract and this is a redundancy. Still, as Sangie points out, fighting this might be difficult and the rewards meagre - although personally I'm all for taking people to court if you have the means, otherwise it keeps happening.