Section 224 — Employment Rights Act 1996: Employments with no normal working hours.

Employments with no normal working hours. 224 1 This section applies where there are no normal working hours for the employee when employed under the contract of employment in force on the calculation date.

2 The amount of a week’s pay is the amount of the employee’s average weekly remuneration in the period of twelve weeks ending—

a where the calculation date is the last day of a week, with that week, and b otherwise, with the last complete week before the calculation date.

3 In arriving at the average weekly remuneration no account shall be taken of a week in which no remuneration was payable by the employer to the employee and remuneration in earlier weeks shall be brought in so as to bring up to twelve the number of weeks of which account is taken.

4 This section is subject to sections 227 and 228.