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How to comply with the law on part-time workers

Ensure that employment policies and procedures (including those in relation to overtime payments, contractual sick and maternity pay, occupational pensions, access to training and redundancy) are audited so that part-time workers are not treated less favourably than comparable full-time workers unless such less favourable treatment can be justified on wholly objective grounds.
In staff and works handbooks, and employment contracts, remind part-time workers of their statutory rights under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (including their right to be provided with a written statement explaining the reasons for any allegedly less favourable treatment).

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