Prepare the following questions for discussion in class

Prepare the following questions for discussion in class

1. What is a zero- hours contract? Explain in your own words.

The zero contract hours is a contract which not guaranteed neither weekly working time, nor minimum wage.

1. What are the disadvantages of ZHCs for workers?

Be inconveniences for the employees are that they have to remain available all the time for the employers.

They cannot organize their day as them wish it

The number of hours paid being very variable, the workers cannot plan a precise monthly budget or organize their timetable

1. Who do ZHCs affect and why?

it affects the people in a precarious situation, who need work

1. What are the benefits for employers?

The advantage for the employers is that they have of the available staff quickly

1. What effect have ZHCs had on today’s society?

The zero contract the hour puts the people in the precariousness but also he allows them to survive

1. What kind of person and/or situation do ZHCs suit?
2. Why do you think ZHCs have taken off so well?

The zero contract hours is successful because the unemployment was important and because the contract offers a flexibility to the employer

1. What would happen if ZHCs were forbidden?

A large number of nobody shall find in the unemployment

1. Do you think ZHCs are a solution for the current economical situation?

No it is not a solution because the employers uses it not to employ durably the people

1. Do you think a similar type of contract will be introduced in France?

I do not think that a similar contract is possible in France because the labor law protects the employees. The employees have an hourly fixed rate, paid leaves

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