The Local Government (Parishes and Parish Councils) Regulations 1999

Staff: continuity of employment

13.—(1) This regulation applies to any person who ceases to be employed by an abolished authority or a transferor authority (“the authority”) where–

(a) the termination of his employment is attributable to the winding-up and dissolution of the authority;

(b) within four weeks of the date of the termination of that employment he is employed by another parish council (“the new employer”); and

(c) by virtue of section 138 (no dismissal in cases of renewal of contract or re-engagement) of the Employment Rights Act 1996(1) (“the 1996 Act”) that subsequent employment precludes his receiving any redundancy payment under Part XI of that Act with respect to his terminated employment.

(2) The period during which a person to whom this regulation applies was employed by the authority shall count as a period of employment with the new employer for the purposes of computing his period of continuous service for the purposes of the 1996 Act and the change of employer shall not break the continuity of his employment.

(3) A person to whom this regulation applies shall be entitled to count the period of his employment with the authority as a period of employment with his new employer for the purposes of any provision of his contract which depends on his length of service.

(1)

1996 c. 18.