Member

The problem is that mobilising that sort of work is now illegal. The Employment Rights Act ensures that that sort of work cannot be offered to people without a guarantee of the number of hours they will be engaged for. That is incompatible with games of chance and luck. Of course, the Government expect the organisers or other contractors to underwrite the guarantee for those people—the people selling beer, merchandise and ice cream. But as we know, there is not only the uncertainty of the game; the British weather can get in the way, even if results go as expected. Who would sign up to such an open-ended liability?