Part-time work

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• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  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).

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

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

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should employers include bonuses paid to part-time employees when calculating their gender bonus gap?

• Type:

  FAQs

  When calculating their gender pay gap, should employers use the actual pay of part-time workers, or a full-time equivalent figure?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer, Iain Naylor, Lucy Sorell and Rachael Wake are associates, and Jessica-Alice Curtis is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  How to

  How to employ someone on a part-time basis

  Practical guidance on employing part-time workers, including the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000; pro rata pay and benefits; and annual leave and bank holiday entitlement.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Thomas is managing associate, and Chris McAvoy, Joelle Parkinson, David Rintoul, and Gerri Hurst associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Training

  Part-time workers quiz - line manager training

  A quiz for line managers to test their knowledge on the law and practice relating to part-time workers.

• Date:

  16 November 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  No remedy for part-time female workers who chose not to join pension scheme previously closed to them

  The Court of Appeal has held that there could be no remedy for part-time female workers who were prevented from joining an occupational pension scheme during particular periods because they would not have chosen to join the pension scheme even if they had been eligible to do so.