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Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2002.
(2) In these Regulations –
“the 1996 Order” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(1);
“collective agreement” means a collective agreement within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(2);
“contract of employment” means a contract of service or of apprenticeship, whether express or implied, and (if it is express) whether oral or in writing;
“employee” means an individual who has entered into or works under or where the employment has ceased, worked under a contract of employment;
“employer”, in relation to any employee, means the person by whom the employee is or where the employment has ceased, was employed;
“fixed-term contract” means a contract of employment that, under its provisions determining how it will terminate in the normal course, will terminate –
(a)
on the expiry of a specific term,
on the completion of a particular task, or
(b)
on the occurrence or non-occurrence of any other specific event other than the attainment by the employee of any normal bona fide retiring age in the establishment for an employee holding the position held by him,
and any reference to “fixed-term” shall be construed accordingly;
“fixed-term employee” means an employee who is employed under a fixed-term contract;
“permanent employee” means an employee who is not employed under a fixed-term contract, and any reference to “permanent employment” shall be construed accordingly;
“pro-rata principle” means that where a comparable permanent employee receives or is entitled to pay or any other benefit, a fixed-term employee is to receive or be entitled to such proportion of that pay or other benefit as is reasonable in the circumstances having regard to the length of his contract of employment and to the terms on which the pay or other benefit is offered;
“renewal” includes extension and references to renewing a contract shall be construed accordingly;
“workforce agreement” means an agreement between an employer and his employees or their representatives in respect of which the conditions set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations are satisfied.
(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(3) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 1 in operation at 1.10.2002, see reg. 1(1)
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