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19“Comparable Workers” and the Part-Time Workers Regulations: Matthews v. Kent and Medway Towns Fire Authority [2006] U.K.H.L. 8Feminist Legal Studies 15 (1): 85-98. 2007.The House of Lords majority decision in Matthews v. Kent and Medway Towns Fire Authority overturns the narrow interpretation given to key aspects of the Part-Time Workers (Protection of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations’ core comparator mechanism in the lower tribunals and the Court of Appeal. It is a contextually astute judgment, which recognises the reductionist implications of an overly narrow approach to establishing comparability for the purposes of a less favourable treatment claim on…Read more
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |