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Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
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Right to receive a written statement of reasons for less favourable treatmentN.I.
5.—(1) If an employee who considers that his employer may have treated him in a manner which infringes a right conferred on him by regulation 3 requests in writing from his employer a written statement giving particulars of the reasons for the treatment, the employee is entitled to be provided with such a statement within twenty-one days of his request.
(2) A written statement under this regulation is admissible as evidence in any proceedings under these Regulations.
(3) If it appears to the tribunal in any proceedings under these Regulations –
(a)that the employer deliberately, and without reasonable excuse, omitted to provide a written statement, or
(b)that the written statement is evasive or equivocal,
it may draw any inference which it considers it just and equitable to draw, including an inference that the employer has infringed the right in question.
(4) This regulation does not apply where the treatment in question consists of the dismissal of an employee, and the employee is entitled to a written statement of reasons for his dismissal under Article 124 of the 1996 Order(1).
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I1Reg. 5 in operation at 1.10.2002, see reg. 1(1)
(1)
Article 124 was amended by the Unfair Dismissal and Statement of Reasons for Dismissal (Variation of Qualifying Period) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999/277), Article 3 and by the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (N.I. 9), Article 11 and paragraph 6 of Part III of Schedule 4, and is amended by these Regulations, Schedule 2, paragraph 3(5)
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