Article 153 Basic award

determining the period, ending with the effective date of termination, during which the employee has been continuously employed,

reckoning backwards from the end of that period the number of years of employment falling within that period, and

allowing the appropriate amount for each of those years of employment.

one and a half weeks' pay for a year of employment in which the employee was not below the age of forty-one,

one week's pay for a year of employment (not within sub-paragraph (a)) in which he was not below the age of twenty-two, and

half a week's pay for a year of employment not within sub-paragraph (a) or (b).