Victory! Fast-food workers get fully guaranteed hours

Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, October 11th, 2016 - 13 comments
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Radio NZ reports:

Thousands of fast-food workers are about to get fully guaranteed work hours for the first time in decades.

Unite Union has reached a new collective agreement with Restaurant Brands, which scrapped zero-hour contracts last year, to ensure further certainty around workers’ hours and shifts.

Gerard Hehir from UNITE says:

“This is something we’ve dreamed about for a long time – and crucially, I think, not just in the industry, not just for our union, but there are hundreds of thousands of workers who work on very precarious work.”

“What this shows is if Restaurant Brands can do it, if KFC can do it, if Carl’s JR and Pizza Hutt can do it, if Starbucks can do it, then there are many [other] businesses that can do it as well.”

The zero-hour contracts ban was a team effort. Here’s what Labour’s Iain Lees-Galloway had to say when the law was passed.

Let’s hope for more of this in election year …

13 comments on “Victory! Fast-food workers get fully guaranteed hours ”

  1. McFlock 2

    Good work Unite, and Restaurant Brands for finally seeing reason.

    I wonder if the shift decision is because getting rid of zero hours actually made their HR more efficient and their workers happier, so they didn’t push back so hard on regular shifts?

  2. The Real Matthew 3

    Didn’t the government change the law to remove zero hour contracts?

    If so shouldn’t they be getting the credit?

  3. Rosie 4

    This is a MASSIVE win, and a long time in the making too. Congratulations to the members, to the delegates and to the negotiators for all their hard work. Well done Restaurant Brands for coming to the table, taking the issue on board and giving your workers the roster security they need so much. Well done everyone for this big achievement.

  4. Ad 5

    Top work Unite!

  5. miravox 6

    Great work UNITE and members. This is a huge achievement hopefully other companies will follow Restaurant Brands (hats off to them) in agreeing to better work hours certainty.

  6. mosa 7

    Now that zero contracts are out what about decent pay for those guaranteed hours !!!

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