The phrase "fixed hours" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a set amount of hours an employee is expected to work or to describe a set schedule of hours for a business or other organization. For example: "The employees at this store work fixed hours, from 9 AM to 5 PM every day except Sunday."
"It's not fixed hours," says Professor Alisdair Gillespie, head of the law school at Lancaster University.
Increasingly, part-timers work at several houses for higher rates and fixed hours.
The trial in St Helens included 246 people, with 42 taking up the offer of fixed hours.
If I set myself fixed hours, or forced myself to write a certain number of words, I produced complete junk.
It would be unreasonable on that basis to expect businesses to promise fixed hours to its workforce.
Museums These museums are open year round by appointment in addition to the fixed hours some of them have.
Cineworld, which owns the Picturehouse chain, told the Guardian it continued to use zero-hours contracts across the business but implemented them "on a 'responsible use' basis, which allows staff the same benefits pro rata as their fixed-hours counterparts".
About 80% of workers in the trial elected to stay on zero hours; of those who took up the fixed-hours option, three of five went for the maximum of 30 hours.
He will promise some key measures: Ensuring workers can demand a fixed-hours contract when they've worked regular hours over six months for the same employer.
Another major retail employer, Arcadia – the parent company of Topshop, BHS, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Evans, Wallis and Miss Selfridge – said it stopped offering zero-hours contracts in 2005 and offered fixed-hours contracts to those still on them.
That they receive a fixed-hours contract automatically when they've worked regular hours for more than a year - unless they chose to opt out.
