Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000

The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 is a UK labour law measure which requires that employers give people on part time contracts equal pay to people on full time contracts who do the same jobs. It implements EU Directive 97/81/EC, and forms part of the European Unions programme to combat discrimination of atypical workers. Because the large majority of part time workers are female, it is also an important attempt to combat sex discrimination.

Texts of EU and UK legislation

• Council Directive 97/81/EC of 15 December 1997 concerning the Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC - Annex: Framework agreement on part-time work
  • Implemented under Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000, SI 2000/1551

• Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP
  • Implemented under Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002, SI 2002/2034

• Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on temporary agency work
  • Implementation: by 5 December 2011.

See also

• Employment discrimination law in the United Kingdom
• Agency Workers Directive
• UK agency worker law
• McMenemy v Capita Business Ltd [2007]CSIH 25

Notes

References

• A McColgan, ‘Missing The Point?’ (2000) 29 ILJ 260
• A McColgan, 'The Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002: Fiddling While Rome Burns?' [2003] 32 ILJ 194