Zero hour contracts have been causing a lot of anger recently. The government believes they have had a positive benefit on reducing the number of people on the dole, claiming that without zero hour working, the number of people on benefits would have reached 3million. Opposition claim they are exploitive and leave people no better off.

So what is a zero hour contract?

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