Theresa May today ruled out banning zero hour contracts insisting it would hurt more people than it helps.
The Prime Minister was responding to a major review of employment laws and vowed to extend best practice among employers to all workers.
She said she wanted to make work secure – but in an acknowledgement of her own poor job security urged other parties to contribute to delivering reform. Labour’s manifesto demanded an outright ban on zero hour contracts.
Mrs May insisted ‘my defining beliefs remain’ despite her election setback and said facing up to the changing world of work did not mean trying to ‘stop the clock’.
Former Blair adviser Matthew Taylor was commissioned by Mrs May to review employment laws as the economy evolves.
Internet-based firms such as Uber and Deliveroo pay people per job completed rather than as a salary – raising questions over rights to the minimum wage, sick pay and maternity leave.