{"id":1856,"date":"2016-01-13T13:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2016-01-13T13:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:27:16","slug":"zero-hours-contracts-some-teeth-on-the-ban-on-exclusivity-clauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/zero-hours-contracts-some-teeth-on-the-ban-on-exclusivity-clauses\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero hours contracts &#8211; some teeth on the ban on exclusivity clauses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"blue\"><strong>What is the legal development?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On 11 January 2016 we saw the first enforcement provisions for the ban on exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts come into effect. Under the new <a title=\"The Exclusivity Terms in Zero Hour Contracts (Redress) Regulations 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2015\/2021\/contents\/made\" target=\"_blank\">regulations<\/a>\u00a0 there is now protection from dismissal or detriment for breaching a provision (or purported provision) of the worker\u2019s contract which prevents them from working under another contract or arrangement for someone else.<\/p>\n<p>(This follows recent <a title=\"Zero hours contracts: guidance for employers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/zero-hours-contracts-guidance-for-employers\/zero-hours-contracts-guidance-for-employers\" target=\"_blank\">Government guidance <\/a>on general use of zero hours contracts, which is refreshingly short and practical.)<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"blue\"><strong>What does this mean in practice for employers?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Employers can no longer insist on zero hours workers making themselves exclusively available to their business. However, the teeth in the new regulations do not appear to be so strong and employers who need this wide type of flexibility may be able to tackle the problem in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>The question may in practice be more one of fairness and ethics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the legal development? On 11 January 2016 we saw the first enforcement provisions for the ban on exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts come into effect. Under the new regulations\u00a0 there is now protection from dismissal or detriment for breaching a provision (or purported provision) of the worker\u2019s contract which prevents them from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/zero-hours-contracts-some-teeth-on-the-ban-on-exclusivity-clauses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zero hours contracts &#8211; some teeth on the ban on exclusivity clauses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}