Any assistance welcome…
A list of available shifts would be sent to a bank of drivers and they would choose what to work on a first come first served basis.
This would seem to be a zero hours type contract and presumably because of this there would be zero holiday pay either.
Are there any other aspects of this type of employment to look out for?
global
The problem with this kind of “bank” is all the crappy old duties would be left in the pot at the end of each and every day.
Market forces could attempt to deal with this problem by ‘any shift not being picked up with an hour to go’ say, get an increment of say £2ph on the original rate. Can’t see that happening with today’s tightwad employers, so the shift just gets left there, and soon enough the client firm decides “not to bother” in future.
I do think that a “job bank” would accentuate any “driver shortage” that may or may not exist in local areas around the country though! 
global:
Any assistance welcome…
This would seem to be a zero hours type contract and presumably because of this there would be zero holiday pay either.global
Absolutely everyone who is an employee is entitled to 5.6 weeks holiday pay pro-rata from the first hour of their employment regardless of whether or not they’re full time, part time, temporary or on zero hours. For those with irregular hours it can be calculated as an average of the last 13 weeks which pay was due. It can also be “rolled up” into the normal hourly wage however the amount of holiday pay has to be shown as a separate item on your wage slip and the hourly rate without the holiday pay element has to be NMW or higher.
Thanks both for your input,
Any good link coner?
global