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  Howard.
  
  Zero hours contract are a response to the excessive employment protection laws to enable businesses to run efficiently and profitably.
  
  Get rid of them and other means will have to be found or a lot of people will be out of work all together and a lot of businesses will go bust.
  
  This and agency work are two reasons for this recession, the deepest and longest for 80-90 years, not to result in the kind of mass unemployment many feared.
  
  I am currently organising a pension scheme for a significant middle sized business where half of the employees are on zero hour contracts. Without such contracts the basis of this business will change, 200 plus of people will be out of work, a lot of profit lost and a lot tax tax not longer will be paid to HMRC.
  
  You need to think of the consequences of restrictive practises.
  
  If you want unemployment levels at Spanish and French levels then by all means make life harder for businesses to operate efficiently and profitably. It is people out fo work who will suffer even more.
  
  Blimey - if what you say Howard is what the left call caring - vulnerable people really could do without caring.

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