Section Sch-5 — Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

5 If (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) an employee of an employer is taken into the employment of another employer who, at the time when the employee enters that other employer's employment is an associated employer of the first-mentioned employer,— (a) The employee's period of employment at that time shall count as a period of employment with the associated employer; and (b) The taking of the employee into the employment of the associated employer shall not break the continuity of the period of employment; and (c) The first-mentioned employer and the associated employer shall be deemed, in relation to the employee, to be the same employer.