Since 2013, zero-hours contracts have become a mainstay of the retail, social care, hospitality, and education sectors, despite efforts from trade unions to ban what they feel is an exploitative labour practice. The Labour Party has now committed to abolishing zero hours contracts were they to be elected in a general election.
Have you been on a zero-hours contract, or multiple zero-hours contracts, for the last decade or more? How has it affected your ability to budget, plan, and juggle childcare and other caring responsibilities? Has being on a zero-hours contract been beneficial in terms of flexibility, or would you welcome the Labour party’s move to abolish the practice?