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National Guidelines in the
United Kingdom - Part-time Work
Department
for Trade and Industry
In addition to providing guidance to employers and employees
on complying with the new Part-Time
Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations, 2000, the Department of Trade and Industry Guide also
offers suggestions for best practice in this area. The
Guide on
Compliance and Best Practice for Employers and Part-Time Workers
recommends that:
- In order to give part-time workers better access to job opportunities,
employers should review their recruitment policies to include part-time work
wherever possible. It also suggests that employers could give consideration
when advertising posts as to whether part-time work arrangements could
fulfil the requirements of the post.
- A wider range of jobs be made available to part-time workers in order that
they be given more mobility and opportunities in career development:
"At all levels of the organisation including skilled and managerial
positions, employers should seek to maximise the range of posts designated
as suitable for part-time working or job-sharing".
- Employers seriously consider job-sharing arrangements and recommends that
larger organisations keep a record of those interested in engaging in
job-sharing arrangements.
- Employers allow part-timers to change their working hours, a practice for
which there is currently no legal provision.
- Training be scheduled so as to make it accessible to part-time workers as
far as is possible.
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