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MPs have approved a bill to give people on zero-hours contracts the right to request regular hours.
The workers (predictable terms and conditions) bill, backbench legislation introduced by the Conservative MP Scott Benton, cleared its third reading in the Commons today and will now go to the House of Lords.
While zero hours contracts are an important part of the UK's flexible labour market, the 2017 Taylor review of modern working practices found that workers on zero hours contracts, as well as agency workers and temporary workers, struggle where flexibility is one-sided in an employer's favour.
The new rights will boost workers' satisfaction and productivity and allow employers to retain skilled staff.
This bill forms part of a wider package of six private members' bills on employment rights which the government is supporting. Taken as a package, these bills will deliver on our 2019 manifesto commitments to enhance workers' rights, and support people to stay in work.
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