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Can an employer treat part-time workers less favourably than it treats full-time workers?

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Can the terms and conditions of employment differ between full- and part-time workers?

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What happens if an employer treats part-time workers less favourably than comparable full-time workers?

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Can an employer choose to employ a full-time person rather than two part-time people?

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Is an employer at liberty to determine its own levels of pay?

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How can part-time workers' rights to indivisible benefits such as company cars be dealt with?

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What are part-time workers' rights to paid holiday?

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Are part-time workers entitled to bank holidays?

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Do part-time workers require an induction programme?

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Is it permissible for an employer to offer a pension scheme only to full-time employees?

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Where an employee has asked for a phased return from long-term sickness absence, can the employer decrease his or her pay to reflect the reduced hours being worked?

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Is it permissible for an employer to dismiss part-time workers in preference to employees on full-time contracts?

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