Nursery World - Part-time staff: Equal measures

Legislation has given part-time staff new rights that all managers should be aware of, writes Mary Evans

Legislation has given part-time staff new rights that all managers should be aware of, writes Mary Evans Part-time workers must be treated as favourably as their full-time colleagues on pay, pensions, training and holidays and can no longer be regarded as career Cinderellas, if they ever were, following the introduction of new employment regulations.

The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 implement a European Union directive. Most of Britain's six million part-time workers are women, and Government ministers believe the change will encourage more women back to work and protect good employers from being undercut by unscrupulous competitors.

Secretary of state for trade and industry Stephen Byers says, 'The Government is strongly committed to promoting the status of part-time work.'

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