The Department for the Economy has made a Statutory Rule entitled “The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week's Pay) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020”(S.R. 2020 No. 178) which came into operation on 14 August 2020.

These Regulations set the calculation of a week's pay, for a range of statutory entitlements, which are available to individuals' whose employment is terminated while, or shortly after having been, furloughed under the UK Government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Copies of the Rule may be purchased from The Stationery Office (TSO) at www.tsoshop.co.uk or by contacting TSO Customer Services on 0333 202 5070 or viewed online at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr