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Part-time worker definition

What does Part-time worker mean? In practice, a part-time worker is someone who regularly works fewer hours or days than a comparable full-time colleague doing the same or similar work for the same employer. Across the UK and Ireland, the concept is used to allocate terms and conditions and to prevent less favourable treatment. In Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Part‑time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 protect “workers”; in Ireland, the Protection of Employees (Part‑Time Work) Act 2001 protects “employees”. Each regime assesses part-time status by reference to a comparable full-time worker and applies the pro rata principle where appropriate. Key features include:...

Part-time workers in Great Britain: definition, comparators, less favourable treatment, pro rata principle, overtime, remedies and tribunal claims under the Part-time Workers Regulations 2000 and Equality Act 2010

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Less favourable treatment and the pro-rata principle

Under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (PTW Regs 2000), SI 2000/1551, part-time workers have protections in relation to certain employment matters:

A right not to be treated less favourably than a comparable full-time worker (see Less favourable treatment and the pro-rata principle, below; and Comparable full-time worker, below).
A right to request from their employer a written statement setting out the reasons for any less favourable treatment (see The right to a written statement giving reasons for less favourable treatment, below).
Protection against Victimisation—being subjected to a detriment or dismissal—for exercising or seeking to exercise their rights under the PTW Regs 2000 (see Tribunal claims, below).
In some situations, the ability to bring claims under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010) for Indirect Discrimination or equality of terms arising from less favourable treatment.
Full-time employees wishing to move to part-time hours may submit a flexible working request to vary their terms for this purpose...

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