Re: Yes and hell no
If they want to kill off zero hours contracts, make employers pay available-but-unworked hours payable to the employee at some statutory minimum "availability rate", essentially a mandatory on-call allowance. I'd suggest around a quid an hour would be enough to do it. That still enables companies to have flexibility, but it means that flexibility doesn't come at such a cost to the welfare state, and encourages employers to have contracts that reflect their needs, rather than shifting the risk and burden on to employees.
As for well paid professionals, they are clever enough to sort themselves out - even if this applied to them, a quid an hour is going to be trivial in the grand scheme of their employment costs.
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