One hour contracts -- that’s how Santander have decided to skirt zero hour contracts to deny workers decent hours and pay.
Santander has been employing 371 on-call customer service advisers on one-hour contracts to supply cover for their staff. That’s roughly 10% of the bank’s 3, 731 customer service advisers across the UK.
Their devious contract guarantees just one hour of work per month with additional hours depending upon needs of their branches and will include short notice cover. Requiring casual workers to be entirely flexible with hours and location, Santander is able to exploit workers for its own interests.
Tell Santander its one hour deals is not much better than zero hours contracts.
Santander is proud for not using any zero hour contracts that doesn’t guarantee any work hours at all. The number of zero hour contracts is continuing to rise as almost a million workers in the UK were on these precarious contracts in 2015.
But these one hour contracts are not much different. It still perpetuates poverty wages that give no financial security to its workers at a time when living costs are skyrocketing.
Santander is a multinational banking corporation. It can afford to give all of its workers decent hours with a decent wage.
Tell Santander to scrap the one hour contracts.
More information
Zero-hours workers '£1,000 worse off a year' than employees
The Guardian. 30 December 2016.
The Guardian. 30 December 2016.
Santander skirts ‘zero-hour’ contracts with one-hour deals
Financial Times. 27 March 2017.
Financial Times. 27 March 2017.
