Section 181 Employment Rights Act 1996

Section 181 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 is about Interpretation. It provides as follows:

(1)In this Part—

• “counter-notice” shall be construed in accordance with section 149(a),
• “dismissal” and “dismissed” shall be construed in accordance with sections 136 to 138,
• “employer’s payment” has the meaning given by section 166,
• “notice of intention to claim” shall be construed in accordance with section 148(1),
• “obligatory period of notice” has the meaning given by section 136(4), and
• “trial period” shall be construed in accordance with section 138(3).

(2)In this Part—

(a)references to an employee being laid off or being eligible for a redundancy payment by reason of being laid off, and

(b)references to an employee being kept on short-time or being eligible for a redundancy payment by reason of being kept on short-time,

shall be construed in accordance with sections 147 and 148.

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