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It is not just the complexity of the compliance that matters; there is a more important problem. Restaurants and shops simply cannot afford to have as many people working in February as they do in December. That is a fact. They cannot take the risk that extra hours to cover seasonal peaks or summer holidays then become permanent costs for the rest of the year. Faced with the choice of managing an impossibly complex system, along with the inherent risk of having to contract staff for more hours than a business will need, we will have no choice: we will simply not be able to offer additional hours to those staff on low-hours contracts.