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The FREE Guide to Zero Hour Contracts

Zero hours contracts offer flexibility – but they come with risks too.

With over a million UK workers currently on these contracts, and legal updates expected as part of the new Employment Rights Bill, it’s more important than ever to understand your responsibilities as an employer.

This free guide from our Corporate Member, Citation, breaks it all down — what your legal obligations are, what’s changing, and when zero hours contracts are (and aren’t) the right fit for your business.

What’s inside?

  • How to stay legally compliant
  • Common contract pitfalls to avoid
  • Your obligations around pay, holidays and exclusivity clauses
  • What we know so far about what’s changing

Your BICSc member benefit

Citation is here to help with hands-on support for HR & Employment Law and Health & Safety making it easy to stay on top of regulations. For more information call them today at 0345 844 1111 or click here to get started. Don’t forget to mention ‘British Institute of Cleaning Science’ to access preferential rates!

Membership | Training | Standards

BICSc is the largest independent, professional, and educational body within the cleaning industry providing training and education, setting standards and procedures for cleaning. BICSc membership now stands at over 71,000 individual and corporate members in the UK and Internationally.

We are a membership organisation that strives to bring recognition of the vital role cleaning operatives play in everyone’s day-to-day life.

Whether you’re shopping, travelling, working, holidaying or recuperating, every one of these scenarios has cleaning staff striving to ensure that the environment is not only clean but also safe.

Founded over 60 years ago, BICSc key objective is to promote the value and professionalism of the cleaning industry, providing training in the key skills required to enhance a cleaning operative’s core role whilst keeping them safe and encouraging them to work in a more effective and efficient manner.

With a range of both practical and theoretical qualifications available, BICSc has something to help further the career of every cleaning professional from entry level, through to supervisor level, and up to an employer with your own business tendering for cleaning contracts.

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