Part-timers are lagging behind (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Part-timers are lagging behind

Pay and promotion prospects of millions of people are being "scarred for life" just because they work part-time, the Equal Opportunities Commission claims.

Around 3.8 million part-timers, almost half the total, were in jobs they felt failed to capitalise on their qualifications, skills and experience.

Britain has the second highest proportion of part-time workers in the EU.

Four out of five part-timers were women and they were more likely to work in low-level jobs.

The EOC said the longer a person worked part-time, the lower their wages were likely to be.

Women who had worked part-time for a year and then worked full-time earned 10 per cent less than those who worked in the same job for the same period.