Section 154 Employment Rights Act 1996

Section 154 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 is about Provisions supplementing sections 148 and 152. It provides as follows:

For the purposes of sections 148(2) and 152(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 Great Britain or elsewhere).

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