Matthews v Kent & Medway Towns Fire Authority [2006] UKHL 8 is a UK labour law case concerning discrimination of part-time workers, and justifications.

Part and full-time fire fighters were being paid differently, and claimed unlawful discrimination under the PTWR 2000.

The Court of Appeal[1] held that they had had the same kind of contract under regulation 2(3), because the categories were meant to be mutually exclusive.

The House of Lords held by a majority that the two requirements for comparability are that there is the same type of contract being used (not the same terms) or a broadly similar kind of work being done.

It did not matter under regulation 2(4)(a)(ii) that the full-time fire fighters did a few extra tasks, because their jobs were still broadly similar.