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Statutory guarantee pay

Even if a contract purports to allow the employer to lay off workers or to put them on short-time working without pay, remember that workers must be paid at least statutory guarantee pay, as long as they have been working for the employer for at least a month. An employer can agree to pay contractual guarantee pay that is better but not worse than statutory guarantee pay. The rules on statutory guarantee pay are found in in section 28 of the ERA 96.