What does Continuous Service mean & why is it significant?
Continuous service is the date the employee originally joined the Company OR transferred into the Company under a TUPE arrangement in this period of employment: Ex 1: An employee joined Ace Ltd on 1 Sep 1988 and has not left the Company at any time. He was promoted in October 2004. His continuous service date will be recorded as 01/09/1988. Ex 2: An employee joined the Red Lion Pub Holding Co Ltd on 3rd March 2000. On 5th March 2005 Alphabet Inns bought the Red Lion Pub Holding Co Ltd, and all of Red Lion’s staff transferred to Alphabet under TUPE. The employee’s start date with Alphabet is the original date he started with Red Lion, i.e. 3rd March 2000, not the transfer date. Ex 3: An employee joined Ace Ltd on 15th April 1992. He left Ace in 1994, but returned into a new job with Ace on 1st Oct 2001 and has been employed there ever since. His start date for continuous service purposes is 1st October 2001, since his earlier service was broken by his leaving in 1994. Continuous service
