# The Guarantee Payments (Exemption) (No. 28)Order 1990, Paragraph 5: Short-time working arrangements


Where by agreement with the signatory unions, approved short time is worked as an alternative to redundancy the guaranteed week shall be reduced in the same proportion as the agreed reduction in the normal working week (subject to the conditions in paras 5.2.1.–5.2.2. below). These arrangements will apply where, due to such factors as a reduction in demand, an employer, as an alternative to discharging a number of his workers, spreads the available work over the existing labour force by means of a reduced working week. This shall be referred to in this agreement as the short-time working arrangements.
5.1. The short-time working arrangements are not to be regarded as covering a temporary cut in hours due to such eventualities as fire or a flood. Where short-time working has to be resorted to for reasons such as these the full guarantee would operate.
5.2. The short-time working arrangements will not limit or reduce in any way the right of an employee covered by this agreement to receive a guarantee payment from the employer:
5.2.1. at a rate per day which is not less than that which would have been payable had the statutory guarantee pay provisions applied (section 15(1) of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 refers);
5.2.2. for a number of days not less than that provided for under the statutory scheme, which is at present 5 days in any 3 month period.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2330/schedule/2/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/guarantee-payments-exemption-no-28order-1990/schedule-2/paragraph-5
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