Zero Hours Contracts

14:52

Janet Finch-Saunders

Minister, I, too, share the growing concerns about zero-hours contracts, but also I share concerns about temporary agency staff so often employed across local authorities and other public bodies in Wales. These temporary agency contracts leave people in limbo. People are unable to get mortgages and they are very much to suit the employer. They are renewed if it suits the employer, but they are not renewed if it does not suit the employer, leaving people feeling very much temporarily employed. Will you look at this and perhaps come up with some kind of review as to the right steps that you are taking with regard to zero-hours contracts?

14:53

Leighton Andrews

Certainly, the impact of zero-hours contracts in the public sector will be considered in full, and that will mean that we will need to look at the question of temporary agency staff. I will remind the Member that her party is in power at Westminster and can legislate to do something about it.