{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/part-time-workers-prevention-of-less-favourable-treatment-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/part-time-workers-prevention-of-less-favourable-treatment-regulations-2000/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1551",
  "legislation_title": "The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/part-time-workers-prevention-of-less-favourable-treatment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Workers returning part-time after absence",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a worker who—\n(a) was identifiable as a full-time worker in accordance with regulation 2(1) immediately before a period of absence (whether the absence followed a termination of the worker’s contract or not);\n(b) returns to work for the same employer within a period of less than twelve months beginning with the day on which the period of absence started;\n(c) returns to the same job or to a job at the same level under a contract, whether it is a different contract or a varied contract and regardless of whether it is of the same type, under which he is required to work for a number of weekly hours that is lower than the number he was required to work immediately before the period of absence.\n(2) Notwithstanding regulation 2(4), regulation 5 shall apply to a worker to whom this regulation applies (“the returning worker\") as if he were a part-time worker and as if there were a comparable full-time worker employed under—\n(a) the contract under which the returning worker was employed immediately before the period of absence; or\n(b) where it is shown that, had the returning worker continued to work under the contract mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) a variation would have been made to its term during the period of absence, the contract mentioned in that sub-paragraph including that variation.\n(3) The fact that this regulation applies to a worker does not affect any right he may have under these Regulations by virtue of regulation 2(4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1551/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:47.860241+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."
}