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@uglypugtrading wrote:

I do believe that even a senior Tory minister raised the issue of zero hour contracts recently, I think they are being looked at.

 

But the rise of the zero hour contract has coincided with a rise in the number of people considered to be in employment (& decrease in 'long term unemployed', for a short stint temping takes you off the claimant count temporarily), and Cameron and Osbourne like to use that statistic to try and present a picture of a recovering economy (we all know that this economy is stagnant with price inflation running at far higher than wage inflation).

 

Unfortunately this government doesn't have much to cling on to, zero hour contracts is serving them pretty well because it allows them to sex up their numbers. 

 

With a bit of luck Labour might make a big deal out of this in their next election manifesto. I'm not a huge fan of their party but we are going to see them in government so we might as well hope that they do some good amidst economy-wrecking and having weird ideological in-fights and calling themselves somethingites or thingyites. 

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I'm not going to get into a political debate, but I will so one thing regarding your comments. Under which government wree grants issued to huge corportations like Amazon to build there warehouses, and under which government did these shocking working conditions begin under? That is all.