The UK Business secretary Vince Cable will today promise a crackdown on zero-hours contracts. Currently more than 2,000 pilots in Ryanair are hired on zero-hour contracts with no job or financial security whatsoever.
The Judge in the recent court case against Brookfield Aviation in the UK, HHJ Hand QC, described these working conditions as an “elaborate arrangement" and found the parts of the contract “quite bizarre"
IRN last week published an article on this area titled - The Brookfield Aviation case - what does it mean for the employment status of agency workers?. Visit the link here:
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