Universal Credit zero hours contract is meaningless

It's not just UC claimants that it affects. There are many in-work claimants on JSA who are on what would be classed as a zero hours contract.

This review is suggesting nothing at all, while appearing to suggest workers are given the 'right to request'   . Anyone has the 'right to request' anything any time. If there is no obligation on employers, then it is rather meaningless. I suspect that employers will be delighted to decline any request that is not in their business interests.

My roach and my OH's roach constantly asks why my OH doesn't get more hours as if he has a choice in the matter. The answer is always the same - "The employer doesn't want to give him any more hours, would the DWP like to talk to the employer now? No? I didn't think so."

Exactly the same in my last job. I was only needed when that met the needs of the employer. There was no extra work so I was never offered any. JC workers sometimes seem to think that businesses are evolving and that more work is created as time goes by. Many businesses just stay exactly the same and their staffing needs stay exactly the same.

This is the flaw with UC. If person X  leaves job A to take job B (with more hours), job A will still exist as person Y    will be recruited into it. Person Y    can be harassed (by the JC) to take more hours by leaving job A to take job C. Job A will still exist and person Z    will be recruited into it...........

The incumbent of job A ( ,  or   ) will always be harassed (by the JC) to take more hours (not available in job A). The only time this would not happen is if job A is taken by someone with no entitlement to benefits (student   or  spouse of wealthy partner    for example). UC is bad for businesses as well as staff, because if staff are harassed to leave then recruitment has to be repeated every time. What a mess.

True.

At the WP they encouraged other "clients" to apply to work where my OH works effectively guaranteeing that he would get less work if they were hired!