Tories and Labour Will Not Help British Workers Says Gary Shores

Gary Shores the UKIP Candidate for Beverley and Holderness says only his party can deliver what is needed to clamp down ‘Zero Hour Contracts’ and stop big business manipulating their workforce.

In statement released Mr. Shores said;

“UKIP has been raising concerns about zero hours contracts for a long time. A year ago we recommended a tough new crackdown on them.”

“UKIP believes in a blanket ban on exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts like a worker on a zero hours contract must not be banned from working for alternative employers.”

“That a minimum notice period of 12 hours must be given by a company as regards the next shift it needs a zero hours worker to do. There have been shocking cases of workers turning up on site in the morning to hear whether or not there is any work for them that day.”

“That after a year on a zero hours contract a worker should be entitled to demand a transfer to a fixed hours contract or permanent post.”

“However, UKIP believes small businesses should be exempted from this final point as their low numbers of employees make it unreasonable to expect them to create permanent posts willy-nilly and the impact of forcing them to do so may be to kill off even the original zero hours vacancy.”

“The spread of zero hours contracts is yet another symptom of the over-supply of labour for working class jobs because of open door immigration from the EU.”

“Big corporate employers have been able to bid down both pay and conditions because they know that workers can be found from the low wage economies of southern and eastern Europe who will accept inferior terms.”

“Unless the Tories or Labour end freedom of movement across the EU, which it won’t, it cannot help British workers to higher wages or better conditions of employment. Only UKIP can do that.”

“It is typical of Labour to wish to legislate against a symptom when the underlying problem is a labour market rigged in favour of the powerful – something it proposes to do nothing to change.”