{"id":276,"date":"2006-03-03T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-03T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T10:00:27","slug":"part-time-workers-entitled-not-to-be-treated-less-favourably-than-full-time-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Part-time workers entitled not to be treated less favourably than full-time workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The position of part-time workers was given a boost by the final ruling in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/ld200506\/ldjudgmt\/jd060301\/matt-1.htm\">Matthews v Kent Fire Authority [2006] HL<\/a>; part-timers are entitled to the same pension and sick pay rights as their full-time colleagues. <\/p>\n<p>The case involved the work done by 16,000 part-time fire-fighters and was the first time the Lords considered some of the main provisions in the <strong>2000 Part-time Workers Regulations<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The general thrust of the ruling was expressed by Lady Hale who said, <strong><em>&#8220;the fact that the full-timers do some extra tasks would not prevent their work being the same or broadly similar . . . weight should be given to the extent to which their work is in fact the same, and to the importance of that work to the enterprise as a whole&#8221;.<\/em><\/strong> She distinguished workplaces where the role of full-timers was to do the important tasks and part-timers did peripheral work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The position of part-time workers was given a boost by the final ruling in Matthews v Kent Fire Authority [2006] HL; part-timers are entitled to the same pension and sick pay rights as their full-time colleagues. The case involved the work done by 16,000 part-time fire-fighters and was the first time the Lords considered some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}