{"id":1327,"date":"2021-07-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"im-22190"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"continuous-employment-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/continuous-employment-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous employment defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a new employee is added to the payroll it is the employers&#39; responsibility to ensure they meet the employees&rsquo; rights. One of the issues that must be considered is the employees&rsquo; length of continuous employment. Continuous employment is calculated from the first day of work without a break.<\/p>\n<p>The length of continuous employment gives certain rights to employees, including&nbsp;maternity pay, flexible working requests and redundancy pay.<\/p>\n<p>Infrequent&nbsp;breaks in normal employment still count towards a continuous employment period. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sickness, maternity, paternity, parental or adoption leave<\/li>\n<li>annual leave<\/li>\n<li>employment overseas with the same company<\/li>\n<li>time between unfair dismissal and an employee being reinstated<\/li>\n<li>when an employee moves between associated employers<\/li>\n<li>military service, for example with a reserve force<\/li>\n<li>temporary layoffs<\/li>\n<li>employer lockouts<\/li>\n<li>when a business is transferred from one employer to another<\/li>\n<li>when a corporate body gets taken over by another because of a legal change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any days that an employee is on strike do not count towards continuous employment, but the days are not treated as a break.<\/p>\n<div style='font-size:smaller' class='im_source'>Source: HM Revenue &#038; Customs   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0100<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a new employee is added to the payroll it is the employers&#8217; responsibility to ensure they meet the employees\u2019 rights. One of the issues that must be considered is the employees\u2019 length of continuous employment. Continuous employment is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}