Zero-hours Contracts

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 26 June 2014.

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Photo of Vincent Cable Vincent Cable The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 9:30, 26 June 2014

My hon. Friend rightly says that certain groups of workers find these contracts advantageous, the main ones being workers who have passed retirement age and wish to do optional, flexible work, and students, for whom the lack of an obligation to turn up at a fixed time for a fixed period is compatible with their studies.