Employees in McDonald’s UK restaurants will be given to change to move off zero-hours contracts and switch to guaranteed hours fixed positions if they want to, reports Sky News. McDonald’s UK Chief Executive Paul Pomroy will inform 115,000 of the country’s restaurant chain employees that they will be given a choice between remaining on a flexible, zero-hours contract or moving to a fixed position that guarantees either four, eight, 16 or 30 hours work per week. Zero-hours contracts have become a point of contention among employers as they have been criticised for exploiting workers by refusing to give them guaranteed hours.Pomroy commented, “Financial regulations have changed, and people wanted the choice. Where we've tried this out, up and down the country, 80% of people stay on zero-hour contract - they're working mums, or they're grandparents that want to take the summer off, or they're students who want to revise. But 20% of people do decide that they want to move on to a fixed contract, and so we do that for them."