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Can an employer treat part-time workers less favourably than it treats full-time workers? Can the terms and conditions of employment differ between full- and part-time workers? What happens if an employer treats part-time workers less favourably than comparable full-time workers? Can an employer choose to employ a full-time person rather than two part-time people? Is an employer at liberty to determine its own levels of pay? How can part-time workers' rights to indivisible benefits such as company cars be dealt with? What are part-time workers' rights to paid holiday? If a part-time or shift-working employee is not scheduled to work on a bank holiday, is he or she entitled to an additional day's holiday? If a part-time employee is contracted to work a half day on a bank holiday, is he or she entitled to an additional half day's holiday to take at another time? Are part-time workers entitled to bank holidays? Do part-time workers require an induction programme? Is it permissible for an employer to offer a pension scheme only to full-time employees? 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? Is it permissible for an employer to dismiss part-time workers in preference to employees on full-time contracts? Do employers have to pay redundancy payments to part-time employees?