By: The Guardian
Jan 19, 2020
The millionaire businessman Julian Richer is bankrolling a campaign that aims to stamp out the use of controversial zero-hours contracts in Britain.
Zero Hours Justice, which launches today, plans to hold free legal advice clinics around the country for zero-hours workers to identify people whose experiences in the workplace could provide the basis for legal action that could help to change the law.
“I’d love to do a Gina and beat the government,” said Richer, in a reference to the anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller. “We will seek to expose zero-hours contracts as sham contracts when they do not represent the truth of what is actually happening.”