Part-Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations, which are made under Article 21 of the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, make technical amendments to the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 to secure—

• that the powers that conciliation officers appointed by the Labour Relations Agency normally have to conciliate in relation to industrial tribunal claims apply to such claims brought under regulation 5(1) of the Part-Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 219) (“the Part-Time Workers Regulations”) that a part-time worker has been treated less favourably than a worker who is not part-time, and

• that the restrictions that are contained in Article 245 of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 against contracting out of the rights in the Order, and are applied to the rights in the Part-Time Workers Regulations mentioned by regulation 9 of those Regulations, do not apply where a compromise agreement is made in relation to proceedings arising under regulation 5(1) or regulation 7(2) (detrimental acts by the employer) that satisfies the conditions regulating such agreements in Article 245(3) to (4) of the Order.