{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fixed-term-employees-prevention-of-less-favourable-treatment-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fixed-term-employees-prevention-of-less-favourable-treatment-regulations-2002/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2034",
  "legislation_title": "The Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fixed-term-employees-prevention-of-less-favourable-treatment-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Comparable employees",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, an employee is a comparable permanent employee in relation to a fixed-term employee if, at the time when the treatment that is alleged to be less favourable to the fixed-term employee takes place,\n(a) both employees are—\n(i) employed by the same employer, and\n(ii) engaged in the same or broadly similar work having regard, where relevant, to whether they have a similar level of qualification and skills; and\n(b) the permanent employee works or is based at the same establishment as the fixed-term employee or, where there is no comparable permanent employee working or based at that establishment who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph (a), works or is based at a different establishment and satisfies those requirements.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), an employee is not a comparable permanent employee if his employment has ceased.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2034/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:51:08.023384+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}