As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft a UK zero-hours contract.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the current employment contract and written-statement guidance on GOV.UK and note the provisions it says must be given to a worker.
   2. Gather the employer's legal name and address, role, duties, workplace, pay, payment interval, shift process, holiday arrangements, notice, probation and relevant workplace policies.
   3. Paste the gathered details into the prompt, leaving any unknown item marked as [TO CONFIRM] rather than asking the model to fill it in.
   4. Paste the resulting draft into a separate document and check every employer, role, pay and working-arrangement detail against the information you supplied.
   5. Compare each statutory and policy point in the model's review list with the current GOV.UK guidance, without treating the model's summary as the authority.
   6. Send the draft, the missing-information list and the comparison notes to a UK employment solicitor for review before issuing or relying on the contract.

   Prompt

   Draft a UK zero-hours employment contract for the following situation:
   
   Employer: [legal name and registered address]
   Worker: [name or 'the worker']
   Role and duties: [role and main duties]
   Place of work: [location or locations]
   Expected type of work: [describe the work and when it is likely to arise]
   How shifts are offered and accepted: [process]
   Pay: [hourly rate and pay interval]
   Holiday arrangements: [known arrangements]
   Expenses: [arrangements]
   Notice: [known arrangements]
   Probation: [period, if any]
   Confidentiality and intellectual property: [requirements]
   Other policies or conditions: [details]
   
   Use current UK employment-law guidance from GOV.UK where relevant, identify which provisions need confirmation rather than guessing, and state clearly where a solicitor should review the draft. Do not invent facts, pay, dates, statutory rights or legal conclusions. Cover the written particulars and other provisions relevant to a zero-hours arrangement, including whether exclusivity restrictions, holiday, sickness, notice, status, data protection, confidentiality and termination need specific wording. Use plain English, label every unresolved item as [TO CONFIRM], and produce:
   1. a complete draft contract with numbered clauses;
   2. a schedule of missing information;
   3. a clause-by-clause list of legal or factual points requiring review;
   4. a short list of documents and policies the employer should check before issuing it.
   This is a drafting aid, not professional advice, and it must not be issued to a worker until a UK employment solicitor has checked it.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.