Michelle OSullivan

2019 May

Zero Hours and On-call Work in Anglo-Saxon Countries

Zero Hours and On-call Work in Anglo-Saxon Countries: A Comparative Review

Springer

Singapore

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zero hours, on-call, job security, working time, Ireland, UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, employment law, social welfare

This chapter reviews zero hours work and working time uncertainty in a comparative context, based on the findings of the country studies in this volume. It identifies the various employment arrangements in Anglo-Saxon countries according to their levels of working time uncertainty and job instability and reviews the extant of zero hours work and working time uncertainty in each country. While there are multiple reasons why employers use employment arrangements with zero hours work and working time uncertainty, the chapter focuses on it as a mechanism of managerial control. Despite similarities amongst the countries in terms of employment regimes, their comparatively weak levels of labour regulation, and the weak labour market position of workers, some countries have responded more strongly than others with labour regulation and the chapter identifies clusters of countries according to the strength of their regulatory responses. Finally, the chapter examines the importance and challenges of labour law and social protection as avenues of protecting people with significant working time uncertainty.

O’Sullivan, M., Lavelle, J., McMahon, J., Ryan, L., Murphy, C., Turner, T. and Gunnigle, P.

978-981-13-6612-3

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811366123

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