Employment
(Amendment of Law) (No. 3) (Jersey)
Regulations 2021
Made 3rd November 2021
Coming into
force 1st January 2022
1 Interpretation
These Regulations amend
the Employment
(Jersey) Law 2003.
2 Article 10 (weekly rest period) amended
(1) Paragraphs
(2) to (6) amend Article 10.
(2) In
the heading “weekly” is deleted.
(3) For
paragraph (1) there is substituted –
“(1) An
employee is entitled to –
(a) an uninterrupted rest
period of no less than 20 minutes in each continuous period of no less
than 6 hours during which the employee works for his or her employer; and
(b) subject to paragraph (2),
an uninterrupted rest period of no less than 24 hours in each 7-day period
during which the employee works for his or her employer.”.
(4) In
paragraph (2), in the full-out text, for “paragraph (1)” there is substituted
“paragraph (1)(b)”.
(5) In
paragraph (2A)(b), before “does not require”, there is inserted “for a
rest period under paragraph (1)(b)”.
(6) In
paragraph (2B) –
(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for
“paragraph (1)” there is substituted “paragraph (1)(b)”; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (b)
after “rest period” there is inserted “under paragraph (1)(b)”.
(7) For
paragraph (3) there is substituted –
“(3) For
the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) a continuous period is taken to begin when
the employee begins working on any particular day.
(3A) For
the purposes of paragraphs (1)(b) and (2), a 7-day period or a 14-day period is
taken to begin –
(a) at such times on such days as may be
specified for the purposes of this Article in a relevant agreement; or
(b) where there are no provisions of a relevant
agreement which apply, at the start of each week or every other week
respectively.”.
3 Article 11 (entitlement to annual leave) amended
In Article 11(1)(a)
(entitlement to annual leave) for “2 weeks” there is substituted “3 weeks”.
4 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be
cited as the Employment (Amendment of Law) (No. 3) (Jersey) Regulations
2021 and come into force on 1st January 2022.