Section 212 — Employment Rights Act 1996: Weeks counting in computing period.

Weeks counting in computing period. 212 1 Any week during the whole or part of which an employee’s relations with his employer are governed by a contract of employment counts in computing the employee’s period of employment. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 Subject to subsection (4), any week (not within subsection (1)) during the whole or part of which an employee is—

a incapable of work in consequence of sickness or injury, b absent from work on account of a temporary cessation of work, or c absent from work in circumstances such that, by arrangement or custom, he is regarded as continuing in the employment of his employer for any purpose, . . . d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . counts in computing the employee’s period of employment.

4 Not more than twenty-six weeks count under subsection (3)(a) . . . between any periods falling under subsection (1).