By Stephen Chegwin | Brightmine editor: Laura Merrylees
This guide covers the rights and protections available to part-time workers under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000.
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- Definition of part-time worker
- Definition of comparable full-time worker
- Less favourable treatment
- Objective justification for less favourable treatment
- Other rights and protections
- Change to part-time work
- Rate of pay and overtime pay
- Redundancy selection
- Annual leave
- Pension schemes
- Other terms and conditions
- Written statement of reasons for less favourable treatment
- Detrimental treatment or dismissal
- Remedies and penalties
- Tribunal claim for less favourable treatment
- Tribunal claim for unfair dismissal
- Future developments
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About the author
Stephen Chegwin
Partner, Eversheds Sutherland
Stephen Chegwin is a Partner at Eversheds Sutherland. Stephen specialises in industrial relations/labour and employment law, acting primarily for global and large-scale employers, many of which are “household names”, in addition to specialist government departments. Stephen undertakes his own advocacy in the Employment Tribunals and at the Central Arbitration Committee, and has a special interest in trade union recognition and disputes, industrial action, collective bargaining, trade union rights, employment and civil litigation, large-scale reorganisations, collective redundancy and reorganisation projects, and discrimination.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Stephen was an HR practitioner and held several senior HR roles within both the private and public sector, delivering both organisation-wide strategic people solutions and operational HR, ER and IR support to those that he partnered. Stephen is also a member of the Employment Lawyers Association’s Legislative and Policy Committee, a chartered member of the CIPD and a visiting lecturer for the University of Law, teaching employment law (amongst other subjects) on their post-graduate level teaching programmes.
Laura Merrylees
Senior Legal Editor, Brightmine
Having qualified as a solicitor in private practice, Senior Legal Editor Laura Merrylees spent fourteen years working in-house for a large telecommunications organisation, specialising in employment law. Laura advised on a broad range of employment law matters, both contentious and advisory. During her time in practice, Laura worked closely with HR professionals and senior management and delivered training to HR teams.
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