3.7.4.3. Contents

Workers willing to work reduced hours can ask to be registered on a special placement list. Such registration does not exclude, however, the possibility of being registered on the normal placement list as well. Part-time employment contracts must be drawn up in writing, specifying the functions and the allocation of working hours.

Collective agreements or company agreements can fix the percentage of workers who may work part-time (compared with the number of full-time workers) as well as the functions and the organisation of working hours.

A worker may therefore request that his/her full-time contract be made part-time.

Workers with a part-time employment contract have priority when full-time personnel is to be recruited.

A worker who is employed for at least 20 hours per week may remain registered in the first category on the ordinary placement lists.

In order to promote part-time work, the Ministry of Labour may partially exempt companies from the general, compulsory disability, old-age and dependants' insurance for part-time employment contracts which, in order to expand the work force or on the basis of collective agreements relating to the decree on excess manning levels, convert full-time into part-time employment relations. This incentive may be granted until 31.12.1995 within the framework of the resources set aside out of the Employment Fund (cf. the section "Employment Fund").

3.7.4.4. Duration

Unlimited

3.7.4.5. Effects

Part-time employment contracts were signed for 246,910 employees (181,729 of them women) in 1993, while for 84,286 workers (64,720 of them women) a full-time employment contract was converted into a part-time contract

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