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GAME staff discovered zero hours contracts move via mass Microsoft Teams calls
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Ah, modern slavery. Zero hours contracts should be banned. Anyone thinking about offering you one, should be poofed out of existence
This means something very specific in the UK.
You can't just drop that and then not explain....
As a noun or adjective it would be a derogatory term for gay men. As a verb most people would recognise it as disappeared in the UK. There plenty of other terms for the verb.
Not just to death
Out of existence
ya not a poofta are ya Bruce?
Pretty sure they’re referring to “poof” which is a derogatory term for a gay man in British vernacular. In any case, the context in which it was used clearly wasn’t intended as the derogatory term, rather to mean “suddenly”.
There is legitimate use cases for a zero hour contract. The vast majority don't fit it.
If the zero hour contract minimum wage was £50 per hour, then it would be appropriate. This would still allow it to be useful to hire consultant, semi- retired experts and contractors and use PAYE, no additional companies, accountants etc. Very efficient and would only apply to employees with some power in the relationship with the business.
However, it's used to exploit minimum or low wage staff. The company takes all the flexibility it offers and uses it to bully the employee into accepting the hours the business wants. They do this by treating to cut hours if the employee doesn't agree. This makes it difficult to have multiple jobs to make up the hours.
It's a bad thing, to be sure, but it's just not anything like slavery.
yeah, people treated their slaves much better.
Did I miss a /s? Because at face value, that's utter bollocks (since we're talking about the UK).
Depends on the terms!
I work four jobs, all freelance, all paid sufficiently and all zero hour.
Suits me really well, as the work comes and goes between the different roles I've always got something to do.
It's the exploitation of them that's the problem. It's the way they're used to make people disposable and bypass employment laws that's the problem.