Part-Time Employment

Mr. Prisk
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what estimate he has made of the cost to date to (a) private sector and (b) public sector employers of meeting the requirements of the (i) Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 and (ii) Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002.

Mr. McFadden
Estimates of the costs and benefits of implementing the Part Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations were published in the “2000 Compendium of Regulatory Impact Assessments” (URN 06/1164), while estimates for the Fixed-Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations were published in the “2002 Compendium of Regulatory Impact Assessments” (URN 05/582). Both publications are available from the BERR website. The Department continues to monitor the impact of these and other Regulations closely as part of BERR's ongoing employment relations monitoring and evaluation programme.