Employment disputes could arise with inflexible contracts

Published on 9 Aug 2010 under category: legal

More employment disputes could arise unless workers are given more flexible terms in their contracts.
A recent survey by the recruitment specialist Hays found that the UK private sector is failing to appreciate the value of interim and temporary workers.
In comparison, almost half (44 per cent) of employers in the public sector believe that such workers are crucial to broadening their skills base.
Mike Petrook of the Chartered Institute of Management said that private businesses risked shutting out talent and slowing down the rate of economic recovery by being inflexible in their attitudes towards workers.
He commented: "Flexibility is the key. As everybody knows, the UK is suffering from a skill shortage at the moment, so by being inflexible in terms of the type of employment that you're offering, your organisation could be shutting itself off to reams of top talent.
"The other thing that we would argue is that what really counts is the output, not the input. It's not the hours that somebody spends at a desk or in their place of work; it's what results they deliver."
Employers could find that disputes arise in the workplace as more workers contest the terms and conditions of their contract in the future.

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