The report underlines the problem segregation for women. It explains that the Equal Pay Äct will never give women equal pay because it refuses to tackle this problem. Women workers are overwhelmingly concentrated in low paid insectors compared with the male dominated inWOMEN generally have the worst jobs going and those who work part-time are at the bottom of the heap.
They include the silent, unseen army who clean out offices and other workplaces after the rest of us have gone home. They work in jobs which have a peak of activity, such as shops and canteens.
Opportunities for training and promotion are almost nil. According to how many hours they work - irom under 1> to su a week part-time workers have different leral rehts. OUL 'they are always worse off than full-timers.
For these women and partHure workes . are overwa agry women the work they do is crucial for the family income. Manv families will fall into poverty women's part-time becomes harder to obtain. . Cope Part-time work is a response to The miltin e Gemanes mace women with young families: extra shopping, laundry, and housework. as wer as citate waconen sal expect women to cope with.
Britain .has both conce æc e vvde figures for part-ume wolk Ik I! dustrialised Europe vart-ume workers three main groups: the disabled or chronically sick who are unable to work iu-ume oul are desperate to work for social as well as economic single parents, part of their social security it they îæe z 0xne vrț œven week in order to claim family income supplement; and Tn ane vner Ninety per cent of women part-timers aged 16 to 59 are married, EWO-HITOS WIlT dependent childen:
Employers, nd de vond conde dd bæce •difficult for Unemployment hits wollin especia nard mmcn timers are the most vulnerable.
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• CHEVIUYCIS liti Ouacc Il - that 1s. culling ROUTS pay throw many people into the legal category of part-time work. It urgell to cantat now or une rights of part-timers as part of the :against unemployment and kory allacks on wade umon rights.
of job wollell Pay settlements have been low in these work worst into lase law, provide information to. part-time workers about their rights and how more unions.
I DaT- It is no coincidence that most Darl-umers are womea. 10 cvcer țoz zre even vncr may the trade union SuI UCluEC •annone conces wilt cellent list of recommendations for part-time workers: the key one con• Ceras unon rec mmem ano Dar ticipation.
Part-time Pittance by Hursttield. oublished by the Low