I’m looking for a policy which incorporates casual hour contracts without being horrendous in how it is written.
I have started a new role at Horse and Bamboo and have looked over an old contract tmplate to send to a new casual duty manager for our bar. it is very out of date and is worded in a way that isn’t hugely welcoming, even though we really are welcoming!
does anyone have a contract for casual hours/zero hours that still describes the person as an employee, has up tp date sick pay information included after the changes made by labour?
Our ultimate goal is to not have these contracts at all, but we currently don’t have enough confirmed hours to be able to guarantee for people, but we do want to move away from this model.
Thanks for sharing the question, @katehammon - it’s an important one! Zero hours contracts can obviously be crap for a range of reasons, but there are also various optionals that can make them less-bad for workers. This doesn’t offer a template, as our work with freelancers doing piecemeal bits of work at RadHR would likely be quite different to a duty manager in a bar, but we have tried to build in things like: offering payment if we have to cancel work at short notice, being flexible in how and when we pay freelance workers their wages, and making clear that we take on more liability for things that go wrong while they are working with us, than we expect we expect them to, as individuals.
I also realise this doesn’t help with any of the specific changes that Labour have recently introduced, but maybe @Abbie_PeopleSupport will know if there are any good summaries to include on this front?
If you are able to produce something, we’d definitely be keen to have it in the policy library, as it’s not something there are enough good examples of out there!