Tag: Zero Hours Contracts
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Queens University workers hold socially-distanced protests as campaign for wage justice intensifies
Unite reiterates that contrary to QUB excuses, its legal advice confirms their members working in the Students Union are eligible for furlough payments On a day when a number of socially-distanced protests in support of Students’ union workers were held at various locations around Queens campus, Unite Hospitality organiser, Neil Moore, said: “There is clearly…
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Queens University must avail of eleventh hour opportunity to furlough students union workers to avoid escalating campaign for wage justice
HMRC officials stand ready to receive application from Queens to furlough and backdate payments for student union workers ahead of midnight deadline Unite legal department letter highlights that HMRC guidelines have been changed to remove any impediment to use of furlough in cases like this Unite Hospitality organiser, Neil Moore, said: “Zero-hours, and casual contract,…
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Disgraceful Queens University decision leaves zero-hours workers facing impoverishment
Official University response to collective grievance offers no hope to workers, 45 percent of whom have had to lost their accommodation due to financial hardship Unite Hospitality organiser, Neil Moore, blasted the response of Queens University to a collective grievance raised by zero hours employees at student union facilities which have had to close temporarily…
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Stormont Executive must intervene to support livelihoods and skills of hospitality and tourism workers
After meeting Economy Minister, Diane Dodds, Unite delegation calls for direct financial payments to hospitality workers as previous handouts to businesses have not been passed onto workers on reduced hours and facing redundancy Call for ban on exploitative practices such as zero-hour contracts, fire and rehire arrangements and bosses’ opportunist reductions of contracted terms Speaking…
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NI Executive must follow New Zealand and legislate to ban Zero-Hours contracts
Latest ONS figures show part-time workers, women and young people at highest risk from wage insecurity Growth of zero-hours, minimum wage and agency working reflects ‘race-to-the-bottom’ economic policies September 8th: Responding to a release by the Office of National Statistics which showed a sharp rise in the number of UK employees working on Zero Hours…