Nigel Farage targets zero hour contracts...

[dutchman]

In a move that will strike a chord with many workers Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party leader, has said that UKIP will ‘tackle the scandalous zero-hour contracts’.



Writing in the Express in his weekly piece ‘Farage on Friday’, Mr Farage says that, although he is a keen champion of enterprise and competition, he believes that zero hours contracts are not fair to workers in the general way they are being used today.

He says that it reminds him of dockers in the 1920s waiting outside the gates for work on a daily basis with some being chosen and the rest going back home with nothing. And that is how some big household names in business are now doing business says the UKIP leader.

Nigel Farage is not the only one pointing out the problems of zero hour contracts though, a new report from Cambridge University says that their use is causing damage to the mental health of the employees of an unnamed supermarket chain.

Mr Farage does go on to say that he does not want to stop zero hour contracts completely as they do have their place in certain circumstances. But what has happened is that big business has taken advantage of them leaving many workers with no security for them and their families.

Apart from being the right stance to take this of course is a direct play at stealing the Labour vote in the run up to the European elections. It also helps combat the claims made by some that UKIP is just another party backing big business at the expense of workers.

[rebbonk]

He's right, they do have their place, but they ought be the exception rather than the rule.

I think Farage is becoming a serious force to be reckoned with, I'm not at all certain how I feel about him. I do think though, he's the best of a very bad lot.