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Part-time working

A part-time worker is a person who works fewer hours than the number of hours that full-time workers in the organisation are contracted to work. It often happens that an employee returning from maternity leave will ask her employer for a move from full-time working to part-time working to fit her working life around caring for her child.

Common part-time working arrangements include: working fewer days per week than full-time workers, for example three days per week; working fewer hours per day than full-time workers, for example four hours per day; and job-sharing, which is where two or more workers share one role.


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    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Sep 2023

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    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Sep 2022

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    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Sep 2022

    The number people aged 50 and over leaving the workforce has increased since the pandemic, reversing an upward trend in the employment rate seen since the 1990s.

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    by Adam McCulloch 16 Jun 2022

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    by Adam McCulloch 9 Jun 2022

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    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Sep 2021

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    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Sep 2021

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