Whilst zero hours contracts can work for some professions, many of them are used to exploit workers, especially the low paid, and those must be tackled.
Like so many of these issues, when they were in Government Labour did nothing, indeed they even published a white paper on the issue praising the flexibility of zero hour contracts offered to business.
Even today Labour run Council's such as Northumberland County Council continue to employ almost 100 people on so called zero hour contracts.
I am personally very proud of my record in fighting for the lowest paid and being a leading champion of the living wage here in the region. You can read more about that fight here;
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/08/guy-opperman-conservative-case-living-wage
and
http://societycentral.ac.uk/2013/09/29/prove-that-the-living-wage-makes-economic-sense-or-it-will-fail/
Sadly Labour are more interested in trying to score party political points rather than focusing on the very serious issue of workers being exploited.
