Part-time working?
I work 50% part-time at a large UK airline. I get less than 50% of a full-timers leave allocation and less than 50% of days off. The company say that this is to offset the extra training costs involved with part-time working.
Is this normal practice? Is it legal? |
Well, it's normal practice in La La land...as you've found out.
Legal? Why not? If you signed up to a swindle - which it is, then that's what you get. If you're so disloyal as to want to work part time why would you expect to be treated fairly? |
ZeBedie,
I'd guess that if you get 50% or more of the minimum legal leave entitlement then it would be legal. If it is morally correct is a different matter. If you're so disloyal as to want to work part time why would you expect to be treated fairly? |
Have a look on the Dti websitehttp://www.dti.gov.uk/index.html
Has lots of help for part timers, I believe you should be treated the same as full timers. PART-TIME WORKERS (PREVENTION OF LESS FAVOURABLE TREATMENT) REGULATIONS 2000 FACT-SHEET FOR PART-TIMERS The aim of the Regulations, which came into force on 1 July 2000, is to ensure that part-time workers are treated no less favourably in their employment conditions than comparable full-timers, unless this is justified on objective grounds. (The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002/2035) made two amendments to the Regulations, dealing with comparators and with access to pension schemes.) This means that part-timers must receive (pro rata where appropriate) the same treatment as comparable full-timers. This will include no less favourable: rates of pay (including overtime pay, once they have worked more than the normal full-time hours); access to pension schemes and pension scheme benefits; access to training and career development; holiday entitlement; entitlement to career break schemes, contractual sick pay, contractual maternity and parental pay; and treatment in the selection criteria for promotion and transfer, and for redundancy. In order for a claim to be made, part-timers will need to identify a comparable full-timer who is receiving more favourable treatment. There are several tests to establish who is a comparable full-timer. The part-timer must: work for the same employer as the full-timer, and do the same or broadly similar work (taking into account experience and skills where relevant) as the full-timer. Part-time workers who believe that they have been treated in a manner which infringes the Regulations have the right to receive a written statement of reasons for the treatment. The part-timer must submit a request in writing, and the employer must return the written statement within 21 days. Part-timers who still believe they are being treated less favourably, and who are not satisfied that this treatment is objectively justified, can make a complaint to an Employment Tribunal against their employer. The Tribunal may require the employer to pay the part-timers compensation if it finds in their favour. There is also protection for workers who return part-time to a job they previously did full-time. |
If this is the general attitude of your colleagues I am glad I don't work for EasyJet There's a clue in the colour... |
ZeBedie: Is it your choice to work part time?? or there are not available vacancies for full timers??
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