Аннотация:We consider parallel machine scheduling problems with identical machines and preemption allowed. It is shown that every such problem with chain precedence constraints and release dates and an integer-concave objective function satisfies the following integrality property: for any problem instance with integral data there exists an optimal schedule where all interruptions occur at integral dates. As a straightforward consequence of this result, for a wide class of scheduling problems with unit processing times a so-called preemption redundancy property is valid. This means that every such preemptive scheduling problem is equivalent to its non-preemptive counterpart from the viewpoint of both its optimum value and the problem complexity. The equivalence provides new and simpler proofs for some known complexity results and closes a few open questions.