Credit to: Radiant Balance
British Labour Party has of late been supporting the idea of empowering workers on zero hour contracts to establish contracted hours and give them more secure income flow. In this article, Mark Crawford argues that this apparent leftward policy is really a guised right wing one, where later on these workers will be persecuted in order to take up full hour contracts (or have their benefits cut off). Mark concludes that zero hour contracts, in the presence of a basic income, can actually be aligned with what people really desire, which is more freedom to choose what to do with their time and what, where and how to perform work.
Mark Crawford, “I want a zero hours contract with a basic income“, The Independence Live Blog, April 1 2015
