# The Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024, Regulation 39: Absences from work to be reduced from the total hours of salaried hours work in a pay reference period

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) The hours a seafarer is absent from work are to be subtracted from the total hours of salaried hours work in a pay reference period if all of the following conditions are met—
(a) the employer is entitled under the seafarer’s contract to reduce the annual salary due to the absence;
(b) the employer pays the seafarer less than the normal proportion of annual salary in the pay reference period as a result of the absence.
(2) The hours during which a seafarer takes industrial action are to be subtracted from the total hours of salaried hours work in a pay reference period if an annual salary was payable for those hours, or would have been payable but for the industrial action.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1015/regulation/39 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/seafarers-wages-regulations-2024/regulation-39/enacted
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