Updating author: Marc Meryon

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Summary
Future developments
Action point checklist
Key references
Questions and answers
Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 overview
Definitions
Rights and remedies
Rate of pay and overtime pay
Redundancy selection criteria
Annual holiday
Other terms and conditions
Training and promotion
Indivisible benefits
Written statement of reasons for less favourable treatment
Unfair dismissal and detrimental treatment
Tribunal complaints

Summary

3.1127

• Under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000, part-time workers must not be treated less favourably than comparable full-time workers unless the employer can justify such less favourable treatment on wholly objective grounds. (See 3.1129 Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 overview and 3.1130 Definitions)
• Part-time workers have the right not to be treated less favourably in matters relating to, for example, pay, overtime premium payments, holiday and holiday pay, sickness benefits, selection for redundancy, access to pension schemes, long-service awards, bonuses and commissions. (See 3.1132 Rate of pay and overtime pay; 3.1133 Redundancy selection criteria; 3.1134 Annual holiday; 3.1135 Other terms and conditions; 3.1136 Training and promotion; and 3.1137 Indivisible benefits)
• Part-time workers may challenge their employer's apparent disregard for their statutory rights under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 by requesting a written statement explaining the reasons for any discriminatory treatment. (See 3.1138 Written statement of reasons for less favourable treatment)
• Part-time workers have the legal right not to be discriminated against, victimised, dismissed or selected for redundancy for asserting their statutory rights, or for questioning or challenging their employer's refusal or failure to comply with those rights. (See 3.1139 Unfair dismissal and detrimental treatment)

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Future developments

3.1128 There are no future developments.

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Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 overview

3.1129 The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1551) implement the Part-time Workers Directive (97/81/EC).