C. Northcote Parkinson Martin's, Guernsey, where he purchased Les Caches Hall and later restored Annesville Manor. His writings from this period included a series of historical novels featuring a fictional naval officer from Guernsey, Richard Delancey, during the Napoleonic era. In 1969 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He chose the subject 'The Status of the Engineer'. Parkinson's law, which provides insight into a primary barrier to efficient time management, states that, "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". This articulates a situation and an unexplained
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