On 13 August the Supreme Court allowed the appeal in the case of Augustine (Appellant) v Data Cars Limited (Respondent) – UK Supreme Court. It held that the Part Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (the 2000 Regulations) prohibit less favourable treatment of part-time workers where their part-time status is an
The law on holiday leave and pay in the UK is continually developing. The Court of Appeal has recently ruled on another holiday entitlement case, holding that permanent employees, who work for only part of the year, are entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks and that employers cannot pro-rate their holiday entitlement to reflect
This post was also contributed by Dimitri Schaff, Trainee, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP (Munich).
Currently, about one quarter of all employment relationships in Germany are based on part-time models, the proportion of part-time to full-time employees having increased by about 12 per cent since 2001. Furthermore, as a result of the implementation of the EU
In the UK, before June 2000 there was no express protection for part-time workers against less favourable treatment when compared with those who work full time. Their only options for legal redress were by way of an equal pay or sex discrimination claim. In 2000 the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (the