Part-Time Workers Regulations extended to protect broad category of "workers"

The Part-Time Workers Regulations ("the Regulations"), introducing new rights for part-timers covering pay, pensions, training and holidays, were laid before Parliament on 3 May, and are due to come into force on 1 July 2000. Following consultation, the Regulations have been extended to cover not only employees but "workers" more broadly defined, thus bringing many homeworkers and agency workers within their ambit.