Updated to reflect that the Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act is repealed by the Employment Rights Bill, which was published on 10 October 2024.
Updated to reflect the proposed measures to ban exploitative zero-hours contracts under the Employment Rights Bill, which was published on 10 October 2024.
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The Workers (Predicable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023 has now received Royal Assent. But will it fix the problem of zero hours contracts and precarious work? Probably not, says XpertHR consultant editor Darren Newman, who casts an eye over Labour's plans for a "New Deal" and points to a forgotten proposal with the potential to make a real difference.
The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was open to an NHS trust to decide not to renew a consultant anaesthetist's fixed-term contract because it had recruited a number of permanent anaesthetists to take on the work.
The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was not unfair for a university to decide against renewing an associate tutor's fixed-term contract because the work that he had been doing was taken over by permanent staff.