Employment Protection (Continuity of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
These Regulations, which come into operation on 2nd February 1997, revoke and replace the Industrial Relations (Continuity of Employment) Regulations 1994 (“the 1994 Regulations”) which provided for the preservation of continuity of employment for the purposes of employment protection rights now contained in the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 where a dismissed employee was reinstated or re-engaged in certain circumstances. The 1994 Regulations also provided that continuity of employment was not broken in redundancy cases where any such employee repaid a redundancy payment or equivalent payment. The only change of substance in these Regulations is the inclusion of provision for preserving continuity of employment where a dismissed employee is reinstated or re-engaged in consequence of the making of an agreement or contract authorised by section 9(2)(b) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (1995 c. 50).