Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 2035
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2002
Made
30th July 2002
Coming into force
1st October 2002
Whereas a draft of the following Regulations was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 42(2) of the Employment Relations Act 1999( 1 ) and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 19 of the Employment Relations Act 1999, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. 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.
Amendments to the Regulations
2. The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000( 2 ) 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))”.
Signed by Authority of the Secretary of State.
Alan Johnson,
Minister of State for Employment Relations, Industry and the Regions,Department of Trade and Industry
30th July 2002
S.I. 2000/1551 .