SCHEDULE 14 Calculation of Normal Working Hours and a Week’s Pay
Part II A Week’s Pay
Employments for which there are normal working hours
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(1)
This paragraph and paragraph 4 shall apply if there are normal working hours for an employee when employed under the contract of employment in force on the calculation date.
(2)
Subject to paragraph 4, if an employee’s remuneration for employment in normal working hours, whether by the hour or week or other period, does not vary with the amount of work done in the period, the amount of a week’s pay shall be the amount which is payable by the employer under the contract of employment in force on the calculation date if the employee works throughout his normal working hours in a week.
(3)
Subject to paragraph 4, if sub-paragraph (2) does not apply, the amount of a week’s pay shall be the amount of remuneration for the number of normal working hours in a week calculated at the average hourly rate of remuneration payable by the employer to the employee in respect of the period of twelve weeks—
(a)
where the calculation date is the last day of a week, ending with that week;
(b)
in any other case, ending with the last complete week before the calculation date.
(4)
References in this paragraph to remuneration varying with the amount of work done include references to remuneration which may include any commission or similar payment which varies in amount.