A bar workerA legal category that sits between employee and self-employed. Workers are entitled to certain rights including national minimum wage, paid holiday, and protection from unlawful deduction from wages, ... on a zero-hours contractA contract that offers no guaranteed hours of work. You attend only when required, and you can turn down work that's offered. You're usually a worker rather than an employee under this kind of contrac... can be rota'd for a Friday night shift one week and given nothing the next, but they still build up paid holiday and must be paid at least the minimum wage for any hours they do work.