Part-time work

New and updated

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  How to

  How to deal with a request to return from maternity leave on a part-time basis

  Updated to reflect that the statutory right to request flexible working is a day-one right from 6 April 2024.

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  Training

  Part-time workers - line manager training

  Updated to reflect that, for holiday years beginning on or after 1 April 2024, an accrual method applies when calculating holiday entitlement for irregular hours workers and part-year workers.

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  Employment law guide

  Part-time workers

  Updated to reflect that the Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 came into force on 1 January 2024.

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  Employment law cases

  Sex discrimination: Dismissal of part-time working mother was discriminatory and unfair

  In Long v British Gas Trading Ltd, an employment tribunal held that the selection for redundancy of a part-time employee who was the mother of young children was sex discrimination, less favourable treatment because of part-time working and an unfair dismissal.

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  Employment law guide

  Flexible working: key differences in Scotland and Northern Ireland

  Key differences in the law relating to part-time workers and the right to request flexible working in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Requiring semi-retired dog handler to work full time was discriminatory

  In Broadist v HM Prison Service, an employment tribunal found that the employer's refusal to allow a semi-retired dog handler to remain working on a part-time basis with an alternative dog, after his dog had died, amounted to indirect age discrimination.

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  Contract clauses

  Pay contract clause (part-time worker)

  A model contract clause setting out terms relating to pay for a part-time worker.

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  Employment law cases

  Part-time working: 50% pay for 53.5% of full-time hours was less favourable treatment

  In British Airways plc v Pinaud, the Court of Appeal held that a part-time worker's contract requiring her to be available for work 53.5% of the time that a full-time comparator was required to be available for work constituted less favourable treatment because she was paid only 50% of the full-time salary.

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  Employment law cases

  Part-time workers: Zero hours lecturer could compare himself to permanent full-time lecturer

  In Roddis v Sheffield Hallam University, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a lecturer employed under a zero hours contract was employed under the same type of contract as a permanent full-time lecturer for the purposes of his claim of less favourable treatment under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1551).

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Kirsti Laird is senior associate at Charles Russell Speechlys. She rounds up the latest rulings.