Dr. Alicja Bobek:

I do not think the Bill would prevent the offering of flexibility.

If one asks for statistics, this is very difficult to get from the CSO. The University of Limerick report on zero-hours contracts tried to pull out some of the specifics. There is a category, hours by week to week, which considers hospitality for that category out of the overall number. That is a very low percentage. Most employees are already in a case where they work from 20 to 29 hours per week, but it is not guaranteed. Those people are in fear and have to accept whatever is offered, because the hours could then be dropped to ten. In practice, that is already being done, so why not just regulate and make that pattern official rather than create this fear where people are afraid to accept shifts?