The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

[F1Employees exercising right to time off work for study or trainingN.I.

70A.(1) An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by his employer or the principal (within the meaning of Article 91A(3)) done on the ground that, being a person entitled to—

(a)time off under Article 91A(1) or (3), and

(b)remuneration under Article 91B(1) in respect of that time taken off,

the employee exercised (or proposed to exercise) that right or received (or sought to receive) such remuneration.

(2) F2. . . this Article does not apply where the detriment in question amounts to dismissal (within the meaning of[F2 Part XI]).]