The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/2035
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st October 2002.

Section 2 Amendments to the Regulations

The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 are amended as follows—

(a) In regulation 2 (meaning of full-time worker, part-time worker and comparable full-time worker), for paragraph 3 substitute—

(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1), (2) and (4), the following shall be regarded as being employed under different types of contract—

(a) employees employed under a contract that is not a contract of apprenticeship;

(b) employees employed under a contract of apprenticeship;

(c) workers who are not employees;

(d) any other description of worker that it is reasonable for the employer to treat differently from other workers on the ground that workers of that description have a different type of contract.

(b) In regulation 8 (complaints to employment tribunals etc. )—

(i) omit paragraph (8); and

(ii) in paragraph (9), omit the words “(subject to paragraph (8))”.