Full-Time > Part-Time ?

jobbingmusician

It is indeed illegal to treat part timers and full timers differently.

I suspect that what is happening in this circumstance, however, is not that the part timers are being paid differently, but that the casual staff are being paid differently. AFAIK this is indeed legal.....

dolly-baby

i dont think it is illegal i might be wrong but i used to work for a call centre and we never got paid double for working bank holiday and if we didnt work it we didnt even get our days pay even though we were contracted to full time hrs on a bank holiday if we never worked it and only worked 4 days we only got paid for the 4 days, so me aswell would refuse to work bank holidays.

Savvy_Sue

dolly-baby wrote: »

i dont think it is illegal i might be wrong but i used to work for a call centre and we never got paid double for working bank holiday and if we didnt work it we didnt even get our days pay even though we were contracted to full time hrs on a bank holiday if we never worked it and only worked 4 days we only got paid for the 4 days, so me aswell would refuse to work bank holidays.

The difference here, from what I think you're saying, is that no-one at your call centre was paid extra for working on a bank holiday.

It may be 'legal' to treat casual workers, who are paid on an 'as and when' basis, differently to workers on fixed hours - I'd check that with ACAS if I were the OP.

But it is most definitely NOT legal to treat part-timers less favourably than full-timers, because this is recognised as indirect sexual discrimination. For example you can no longer keep them out of the company pension scheme.