Section 119 — Employment Rights Act 1996: Basic award.

Basic award. 119 1 Subject to the provisions of this section, sections 120 to 122 and section 126, the amount of the basic award shall be calculated by—

a determining the period, ending with the effective date of termination, during which the employee has been continuously employed, b reckoning backwards from the end of that period the number of years of employment falling within that period, and c allowing the appropriate amount for each of those years of employment.

2 In subsection (1)(c) “ the appropriate amount ” means—

a one and a half weeks’ pay for a year of employment in which the employee was not below the age of forty-one, b one week’s pay for a year of employment (not within paragraph (a)) in which he was not below the age of twenty-two, and c half a week’s pay for a year of employment not within paragraph (a) or (b).

3 Where twenty years of employment have been reckoned under subsection (1), no account shall be taken under that subsection of any year of employment earlier than those twenty years. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .