EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (“the 2002 Regulations”).
Regulation 3 of these Regulations revokes the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008.
Regulation 4 of these Regulations substitutes a new paragraph (1) in regulation 18(1) of the 2002 Regulations. The effect of the substituted paragraph is that paragraphs 2(b) and 4 of Schedule 11 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c.7) (circumstances in which periods of entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay do not arise) are omitted in relation to employment under a fixed-term contract where the employee is an agency worker.