PART 3CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS
Continuous employment and stoppages of work14
1
Where a person does not work for any week or part of a week because there is a stoppage of work at that person’s place of employment due to a trade dispute within the meaning of section 35(1) of the Jobseekers Act 199528 then—
a
that person’s continuity of employment shall be treated as continuing throughout the stoppage (but see paragraph (2)) for the purposes of section 171ZZ6 of the 1992 Act, and
b
no such week shall count in the computation of their period of continuous employment (but see paragraph (3)).
2
Where during the stoppage of work a person is dismissed from their employment, that person’s continuity of employment shall not be treated under paragraph (1) as continuing beyond the commencement of the day that person stopped work (but see paragraph (3)).
3
Paragraph (1)(b) and paragraph (2) do not apply to a person who proves that at no time did they have a direct interest in the trade dispute in question.