Dock Work Act 1989

6 Employment protection for dock workers

(1) This section applies to any employee who immediately before the date of the passing of this Act was a registered dock worker in the employment of a registered employer and is in the same employment on that date.

(2) Section 1 of the 1978 Act (right to written particulars of terms of employment) shall have effect in relation to any employee to whom this section applies as if it required the employer by whom he is employed on the date of the passing of this Act to give to the employee a written statement in accordance with that section not later than the end of the period of thirteen weeks beginning with that date.

(3) In computing for the purposes of any provision of the 1978 Act the period of continuous employment of an employee to whom this section applies—

(a) any period during which the employee’s name was entered in any statutory register of dock workers (whether or not he was in the employment of a registered employer) shall be treated for the purposes of section 151 of, and Schedule 13 to, that Act as if it had been a period of employment under a contract of employment with the employer by whom he is employed on the date of the passing of this Act, and

(b) any week during the whole or part of which his name was entered in any statutory register of dock workers (whether or not he was in the employment of a registered employer) shall, without prejudice to paragraph 15 of Schedule 13, be treated as if it were such a week as is mentioned in paragraph 4 of that Schedule.