Legislation has given part-time staff new rights that all managers should be aware of, writes Mary Evans Part-time workers must be treated as favourably as their full-time colleagues on pay, pensions, training and holidays and can no longer be regarded as career Cinderellas, if they ever were, following the introduction of new employment regulations. The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 implement a European Union directive. Most of Britain's six million part-time workers are women, and Government ministers believe the...