Ministry of Defence Main Building (United Kingdom) each and cost £12,600. Similar figures representing "air" and "fire" were intended to be installed at the south end of the building, however these were never constructed. During the 1950s, building staff nicknamed the statues "Mr and Mrs Parkinson", after Cyril Northcote Parkinson, the Board of Trade civil servant who devised Parkinson's Law which states "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". More recently MOD staff refer to the statues as the "two fat ladies". The badge of the RAF is carved into stone columns either side of the southern entrance to the building, reflecting
Part-time Work Directive 1997 defined ‘in accordance with national law and practice’. The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 implemented the Directive in UK law, without any appearance of going beyond the minimum. In the leading case, "Matthews v Kent & Medway Towns Fire Authority" the House of Lords found that a group of part-time and full-time firefighters were comparable, even though the part-time fire fighters did not do the administrative work of the full-time staff. Part-time Work Directive 1997 Part-time Work Directive 97/81/EC is one of three EU Directives that regulate atypical work. Alongside the Fixed-term Work Directive and the