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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2015-02-10more like thismore than 2015-02-10
answering body
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills more like this
answering dept id 26 more like this
answering dept short name Business, Innovation and Skills more like this
answering dept sort name Business, Innovation and Skills more like this
hansard heading Zero Hours Contracts more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what definition the Government uses for classifying a zero hours contract. more like this
tabling member constituency Wirral South more like this
tabling member printed
Alison McGovern more like this
uin 223955 more like this
answer
answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2015-02-24more like thismore than 2015-02-24
answer text <p>There is no legal definition of a zero hours contract in UK domestic employment law. In general terms a zero hours contract is an arrangement under which an employer does not guarantee the individual any work, and the individual is not obliged to accept any work offered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The ONS in their Labour Force Survey describe a zero hours contract as a contract ‘where a person is not contracted to work a set number of hours, and is only paid for the number of hours that they actually work’.</p><p> </p> more like this
answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire more like this
answering member printed Jo Swinson more like this
question first answered
less than 2015-02-24T11:48:33.627Zmore like thismore than 2015-02-24T11:48:33.627Z
answering member
1513
label Biography information for Jo Swinson more like this
tabling member
4083
label Biography information for Alison McGovern more like this