Consultation outcome

Making Work Pay: the application of zero hours contracts measures to agency workers

From:
Department for Business and Trade
Published
21 October 2024
Last updated
4 March 2025 — See all updates
This consultation has concluded

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Government response to the consultation on the application of zero hours contracts measures to agency workers

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Detail of outcome

The consultation received 629 responses from a wide range of stakeholders, which have been summarised in this document. The response sets out the government’s position on the issue and next steps.

Original consultation

Summary

The government is seeking views on the application of measures to tackle one-sided flexibility in zero hours contracts to agency workers.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

The government is introducing measures to tackle one-sided flexibility in zero-hours contracts through a right to guaranteed hours with a contract that reflects the number of hours regularly worked, and a right to reasonable notice of shifts with payment for shifts cancelled or curtailed at short notice.

This consultation seeks views specifically on the application of these 2 measures to agency workers so responses from stakeholders can help to inform the government’s approach to legislation on this point.

The government will consult at a later date on the implementation of these 2 measures more generally.

See the public consultations privacy notice.

Documents

Consultation on the application of zero-hours contracts measures to agency workers (web accessible version)

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Consultation on the application of zero hours contracts measures to agency workers (PDF version)

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Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2024
Last updated 4 March 2025

  1. Government consultation response published.

  2. Web accessible version of consultation document added.

  3. PDF version of consultation document updated with correct response email address.

  4. First published.

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