Hi Karen
Surely there is no ‘working time’ happening during days / weeks when no work has been provided? - so there’s nothing to prevent other employments etc meantime.
The Universal Credit matter depends entirely on their rules, but presumably it’s determined by income from employment rather than by any halfbaked / moribund ‘zero hours’ arrangements such as these seem to be.
In reply to David:
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