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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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    BA cabin crew member denied flexibility to help with childcare wins £38k

    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Sep 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Sep 2021

    A British Airways cabin crew member who was denied the ability to work set days to assist with childcare has...

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    Day-one right to request flexible working consultation confirmed

    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Sep 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Sep 2021

    A consultation seeks views on making the right to request flexible working avaialble from an employee's first day at work.

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    Jo Swinson to lead research into flexible furlough’s impact on part-time work

    by Rob Moss 7 Sep 2021
    by Rob Moss 7 Sep 2021

    Liberal Democrats former leader Jo Swinson will head up a research steering group looking at how flexible furlough has affected...

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    Estate agent refused 5pm finish wins £185,000 payout

    by Jo Faragher 7 Sep 2021
    by Jo Faragher 7 Sep 2021

    A woman has won a sex discrimination case against her employer – receiving a payout of £185,000 – after it...

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    Childcare issues force one in six to cut work hours

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Aug 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Aug 2021

    One in six parents has had to reduce their working hours because of difficulty accessing childcare.
    According to the Early...

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    Cut cost of job shares to incentivise uptake, MPs urge

    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Jul 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Jul 2021

    The government should incentivise job sharing by cutting employers’ national insurance contributions for employees in such roles, MPs and campaigners...

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    NHS ‘Catch-22’ scenario could lead to doctor shortage

    by Adam McCulloch 5 Jul 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 5 Jul 2021

    Royal College of Physicians says current NHS staff shortages means that requests to go part time were difficult to grant.

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    Furloughed staff ‘don’t want to go back to work’

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Jun 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Jun 2021

    Some furloughed staff feel the time off work has been ‘great’, former business secretary Dame Andrea Leadsom has said.

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    British Airways puts thousands back on furlough

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jun 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jun 2021

    British Airways has put thousands of employees back on furlough because plans to resume international travel have stalled.

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    Fall in staff working flexible hours during pandemic

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 May 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 May 2021

    CIPD analysis of Labour Force Survey data shows a decline in the use of part-time working, flexi-time and annualised hours.

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    Flexible working unavailable for nearly half of staff

    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Feb 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Feb 2021

    A renewed campaign to make the right to request flexible working available from an employee’s first day at work has...

    • Coronavirus
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    Majority of roles still not advertised as flexible

    by Jo Faragher 8 Dec 2020
    by Jo Faragher 8 Dec 2020

    Four in five jobs still do not advertise flexible working options despite the huge shift to home working during the...

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    Zurich sees female applications leap after altering senior job advert wording

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Nov 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Nov 2020

    The number of women applying for senior roles at Zurich in the UK leapt by a fifth last year after...

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    Job Support Scheme ‘won’t reduce job losses’

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Sep 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Sep 2020

    The Job Support Scheme (JSS) will not save enough jobs and could be improved if the government scraps its ‘poorly...

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    Security guard called ‘honey’ by manager wins £10k in sex discrimination case

    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Sep 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Sep 2020

    The worker was repeatedly called ‘honey’ by her manager, had her hours reduced and was denied the ability to take paid holiday.

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