[xnorswap]

A zero hours contract has been useful for me, as someone who needed to work around a medical condition. I worked the hours I could, got paid for them, but I could also take days off at short notice if I wasn't up to working that day.

I have had to negotiate a reduced-hours permanent contract now, but the zero-hours contract I had has genuinely helped me a lot, and was more flexible than the reduced hours contract I'm moving to.

But I also accept that not everyone is in the privileged position of being a software developer at a good company, and that there are many predatory companies taking the piss.

So I support the crackdown on zero-hours while also finding myself missing the fact that I will no longer benefit from it.

[iberator]

You must be joking. How would you heal yourself if you gonna get 1h per week for next 1 year?

[xnorswap]

Firstly, I have a good relationship with my employer, so I'm the one choosing my hours. It would have been legal for them to reduce my hours to zero, but I trusted them not to do that, and indeed they didn't do that.

Secondly, we have the NHS, so my access to healthcare is not tied to my employment nor my ability to pay.

I can only share my experience, and as I said, I recognise this isn't the norm for most zero-hours contractors out there, who are in much worse conditions and have uncertainty, which is why I support the changes in law around them.