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PART XIIREDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ETC.

CHAPTER IIIRIGHT BY REASON OF LAY-OFF OR SHORT-TIME

Supplementary

Provisions supplementing Articles 183 and 187

189.  For the purposes of Articles 183(2) and 187(2)—

(a)it is immaterial whether a series of weeks consists wholly of weeks for which the employee is laid off or wholly of weeks for which he is kept on short-time or partly of the one and partly of the other, and

(b)no account shall be taken of any week for which an employee is laid off or kept on short-time where the lay-off or short-time is wholly or mainly attributable to a strike or a lock-out (whether or not in the trade or industry in which the employee is employed and whether in Northern Ireland or elsewhere).