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Matthews v Kent and Medway Towns Fire Authority

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contract type, and three held there was the same kind of work. The majority held the firefighters were all in category of regulation 2(3)(a). It did not matter under regulation 2(4)(a)(ii) that the full-time fire fighters did a few extra tasks, because their jobs were still broadly similar. The case was remitted to the tribunal to be finalised.
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The House of Lords held by a majority that the two requirements for comparability are that there is the same type of contract being used (not the same terms) or a broadly similar kind of work being done. The Directive clause 3(2) indicated the broad nature of the inquiry. Four held there was the same
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The Employment Tribunal held that the full-time firefighters fell under regulation 2(3)(a) and the part-time firefighters under regulation 2(3)(d), nor did they do broadly similar work under regulation 4(a)(ii). The EAT upheld the Tribunal. The Court of Appeal held that they had had the same kind of
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Lady Hale remarked, ‘in answering particular weight should be given to the extent to which their work is in fact the same and to the importance of that work to the enterprise as a whole. Otherwise one runs the risk of giving too much weight to differences which are the almost inevitable result of
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contract under regulation 2(3), because the categories were meant to be mutually exclusive. However, the appeal was still dismissed because the firefighters did not do the same or broadly similar work under regulation 4(a).
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Part and full-time fire fighters were being paid differently, and claimed unlawful discrimination under the
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Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hope of Craighead, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Carswell and Lord Mance
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case concerning discrimination of part-time workers, and justifications.
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Index

Matthews v Kent & Medway Towns Fire Authority

House of Lords
UKHL 8
UKHL 8
UK labour law
PTWR 2000
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t
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Part-time Workers Directive
97/81/EC
Part-time Workers Regulations 2000
SI 2000/1551
Matthews v Kent and Medway Fire Authority
UKHL 8
O'Brien v Ministry of Justice
UKSC 6
Fixed-Term Work Directive
99/70/EC
Fixed-term Employees Regulations 2002
SI 2002/2034
Adeneler v Ellinikos Organismos Galaktos
C-212/04
Del Cerro Alonso v Osakidetza
C-307/05
Employment Agencies Act 1973
c 35
Employment Agencies Regulations 2003
SI 2003/3319

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