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“Better” part‐time jobs? A study of part‐time working in nursing and the police
Christine Y. Edwards; Olive Robinson
2001 Employee Relations: An International Journal
Part-time working has been traditionally associated with poor quality, low skill jobs in the secondary labour market. Explores the expansion of part-time work into skilled occupations using case studies in nursing and the police. Employees in both services have pay and conditions wholly pro-rated with full-time colleagues. However, despite a potentially strong bargaining position in relation to the employer, these part-timers had not achieved complete equality with full time counterparts. Demonstrates a breaking of the mould of poor quality part-time jobs showing that better jobs can be worked on a part-time basis. Concludes, however, that full equality is unlikely to be achieved without strategic intervention at the workplace level.