C1C2C3C4C5C6PART XIUNFAIR DISMISSAL

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Pt. 11 (arts. 126-169A) modified (1.10.2009) by European Public Limited-Liability Company (Employee Involvement) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2402), reg. 29 (with reg. 39)

CHAPTER IIREMEDIES FOR UNFAIR DISMISSAL

Compensation

Basic award153

1

Subject to the provisions of this Article, Articles 154 to 156 and Articles 160 and 161, the amount of the basic award shall be calculated by—

a

determining the period, ending with the effective date of termination, during which the employee has been continuously employed,

b

reckoning backwards from the end of that period the number of years of employment falling within that period, and

c

allowing the appropriate amount for each of those years of employment.

2

In paragraph (1)(c) “the appropriate amount” means—

a

one and a half weeks' pay for a year of employment in which the employee was not below the age of forty-one,

b

one week's pay for a year of employment (not within sub-paragraph (a)) in which he was not below the age of twenty-two, and

c

half a week's pay for a year of employment not within sub-paragraph (a) or (b).

3

Where twenty years of employment have been reckoned under paragraph (1), no account shall be taken under that paragraph of any year of employment earlier than those twenty years.

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Para. (6) rep. by 1999 NI 9