Rights to full-time pay

Part-time workers should be paid on the same basis as their full-time counterparts when attending a trade union training course. The employer had agreed that Mrs Davies could attend two five-day courses run by her union for safety reps, but only paid her for her usual 22-hour working week. The Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that she was entitled to be paid as if she was a full-time worker, as she had been given time off to attend a full-time training course.

* Davies v Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council [1999] IRLR 769