Many human resource experts are already sounding off on Labour’s most recent plans to overhaul zero hours contracts.

In what some are calling an aggressive promise, Labour is looking to reform the much-criticised contracts.  By changing the law, Labour leaders say that the growing issue of zero hour contracts will come to a slowdown.  While the proposal seems bold, there will of course be exceptions to the rule.  For example, agency nurses who request the contracts so that they can work at more than one hospital would be an exemption.

Unfortunately for Labour, Conservatives and business leaders are highly against the idea.  Some Conservatives are calling the move, “unnecessary” and “potentially damaging”.  They are calling this an example of politics trumping good policy.

The CBI’s director, General John Cridland, has also been pretty vocal about his dislike for the idea.

“The UK’s flexible job market has given us an employment rate that is the envy of other countries,” Cridland said. “Proposals to limit flexible contracts to 12 weeks are wide of the mark.”

The Conservative party is claiming that only one in 50 jobs is actually a zero hours job and that three quarters of new jobs created since this particular government came into office are, indeed, full time.

In the event that he wins this upcoming election, Ed Miliband has already promised to introduce legislation that would force employers to give staff a permanent position if they have already completed 12 weeks’ continuous zero-hours work.