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Zero hours should’ve worked really well for me both times I was at uni and needed a part time job… But the employers on both occasions took zero hours to mean “we can give you anywhere between 0-30 hours of work per week, if you say no to any of it we’ll not offer you anything else (until we piss someone else off and need you)”.

They’d routinely hire 17 year olds because of the lower minimum wage, and then pull the same move in late spring when those students would have A-Levels. Saw multiple parents come in to tell off the store manager for their pushy behavior.

I was hired as a student, very clearly stating my schedule in the interview, and within a few weeks was being scheduled in during lectures.

Yeah there’s some big employers like Aldi that mess with zero hours contracts, but it’s small employers manipulating staff that need to be cracked down on, or staff offered a streamlined way to flag abuses with rotas.