The Employment Protection (Part-time Employees) Regulations 1995

• Citation: S.I. 1995/31
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Protection (Part-time Employees) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 6th February 1995.

(2) In these Regulations “the 1978 Act ” means the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 .

Section 2 Extension of rights of part-time employees

Section 5(1)(b) of the 1978 Act (exclusion of part-time employees from right to written particulars of employment under sections 1 to 4) shall cease to have effect.

Section 3 Extension of rights of part-time employees

In section 146 of the 1978 Act, subsections (4) to (8) (exclusion of part-time employees from certain rights which do not depend on a qualifying period of employment) shall cease to have effect.

Section 4 Extension of rights of part-time employees

(1) In Schedule 13 to the 1978 Act, the following provisions, which relate to the number of hours which an employee needs to work in a week for that week to count in computing a period of employment, shall cease to have effect—

(a) paragraph 3;

(b) in paragraph 4, the words “which normally involves employment for sixteen hours or more weekly”; and

(c) paragraphs 5 to 8.

(2) In paragraph 1 of that Schedule, for the word “3” there shall be substituted the word “4”.

Section 5 Extension of rights of part-time employees

Section 281 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (exclusion of part-time employees from right to time off for trade union duties and activities) shall cease to have effect.

Section 6 Repeals

The repeals in the Schedule to these Regulations shall have effect.