Stephen Forward: are zero-hour contracts an employment tool or Victorian torture?
Published: 08 December, 2014
There's been a lot of bad press lately on the subject of zero-hours contracts. The Labour party have pledged to abolish them if they win the next election. So what are zero-hours contracts exactly, why do employers use them, and how do they work in practice?
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