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The duty to make a guaranteed-hours offer should lie with the employer. This is the best way to ensure that all qualifying workers benefit from the right to guaranteed hours when they want them. If a worker on an exploitative zero-hours contract had to request a guaranteed-hour offer, they might feel less able to assert their right to those guaranteed hours, and they would lose out as a result. I agree with my noble friend Lady Carberry that it is quite right to highlight the imbalance of power in the workforce for those individuals. This is particularly true when workers take up a new job.