Quote ="EHW"I was working on a zero hours contract in 1999, under the last Labour government.'"
And?
The issue has been their widespread adoption as the preferred mode of employment as opposed to their use when it may actually be appropriate and even suit both parties.
A neighbour works for M&S and she was telling us the other day staff are being moved onto zero hours contracts (or new staff taken on are employed this was when previously not the case) which is just wrong and is exactly what Balls is on about.