Everything you wanted to know about part-time employees

Many employers know that there are "core" employees and part-time employees. Read this article to find out who these people are, how to formalize labor relations with them and what benefits they are entitled to.

Who are part-time workers?

Each employee has the right to enter into employment contracts with different employers and perform additional work in his or her free time.

There are two concepts in the Labor Code: concurrent employment and combining positions. Based on the above, let's take a closer look at how these concepts differ.

Combination - is the performance of other work by an employee in his/her free time. Such work (additional work) must be regular and paid on the basis of an employment contract.

Combining jobs can be internal (an employee performs additional work at the same company as his or her main job) and external (an employee works part-time at another company).

Combination - is the performance by an employee, in addition to his/her main job, of additional work in another position at the same enterprise.

In this article, we will talk about part-time work.

How many hours per day can a part-time employee work?

Only employees of state-owned and municipal enterprises and organizations are subject to restrictions on the number of hours worked per day. They can work no more than four hours on a weekday, and a full day can be worked only on a day off.

For other employees, there are no restrictions on the number of hours worked per day or per week, and it does not even matter how many part-time employment contracts one employee has.

This means that if you decide to hire a part-time employee, you can safely arrange for an eight-hour working day and a five-day working week. Even if the employee's working hours overlap with the main job and the part-time job, this will not violate the law, as employees are not required to inform employers that they are working at more than one job at the same time.

Can an employee hold the same position at his/her main job and a part-time job?

Yes, it can. An employee can work on both an external and internal basis and hold the same position. For example, if your store is open from 9.00 to 21.00, and there is only one salesperson in the store and he is satisfied with this schedule, you can register him as an internal part-time employee. That is, from 9.00 to 18.00 he works as a salesperson at his main place of work, and from 18.00 to 21.00 he works as an internal part-time salesperson. In this case, you will not violate labor laws and the seller will not violate the working day standards.

Are part-time employees entitled to receive sick and maternity leave?

Yes, they do. Sick pay can be received both at the main place of work and at a part-time job. When it comes to sick leave, when accruing it to an employee, you need to make sure that such an employee does not work. That is, if an employee is sick, he or she should stay at home and not go to work either at a part-time job or at the main place of work.

If an employee works at one of their jobs during a sick leave and the Social Insurance Fund finds out about it, it will force you to return the benefit back to the fund and pay an additional fine for misuse of the fund's funds.

Maternity leave is much simpler. An employee has the right to receive assistance at both her main and part-time jobs and still work. Such leave is not considered an employee's obligation, but her right.

Important nuance! If you have a part-time employee and he/she brings the original sick leave certificate, return it to the employee. To calculate sick leave for a part-time employee, you need a copy of the sick leave with the stamp and signature of the head of the company at the main place of work.

Even if your internal part-time employee brings you sick leave, you accrue sick leave at your main place of work, then make a copy of the sick leave, certify it yourself, issue an income statement to yourself, and accrue sick leave to the internal part-time employee.

If you have any questions about part-time employees, please leave them in the comments and we will answer them.