Section 154 — Employment Rights Act 1996: Provisions supplementing sections 148 and 152.

Provisions supplementing sections 148 and 152. 154 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).