article_snippet.sent: Under Labour's plan, workers will also be entitled to compensation if shifts are cancelled at short notice.
article_snippet.sent: The proposal goes well beyond the recommendations made by the former Morrisons exec Norman Pickavance in an independent review for Labour.
article_snippet.sent: Critics have warned that company bosses could dismiss staff just before the right to a full contract kicks in.
article_snippet.sent: The proposal also risks undermining Britain's flexible labour market which economists claim is behind the recent jobs boom.
article_snippet.sent: he added: 'Nobody supports the misuse of these contracts, but demonising and ultimately outlawing these contracts will simply risk jobs and undermine a labour market that has made us the envy of Europe.'
article_snippet.sent: John Cridland, CBI director-general, added: 'The UK's flexible jobs market has given us an employment rate that is the envy of other countries, so proposals to limit flexible contracts to 12 weeks are wide of the mark. '
article_snippet.sent: Of course action should be taken to tackle abuses, but demonising flexible contracts is playing with the jobs that many firms and many workers value and need. 'proposals to limit flexible contracts to 12 weeks run the risk of a return to day-to-day hiring in parts of the economy, with lower stability for workers and fewer opportunities for people to break out of low pay.'