What types of break between contracts would not constitute a break in continuous employment?

Continuous employment is the collective period during which an employee has worked for the same employer without a break. An individual’s period of continuous employment is significant due to the fact that once an employee attains one year's continuous employment with their employer, they become eligible for certain rights including protection against unfair dismissal and entitlement to statutory payments such as statutory redundancy pay and statutory maternity pay.

Generally, an employer’s continuous employment will be broken by a break of one clear week between two contracts of employment. However, there are certain exceptions to this such as absences due to:

• sickness or injury for a