Parental Leave Entitlement (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

L.N. 175 of 2010

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Parental Leave Entitlement (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 10 and 48

(2) of the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Prime

Minister has made the following regulations –

The title of these regulations is the Parental Leave

Entitlement (Amendment) Regulations, 2010 and they shall be

read and construed as one with the Parental Leave Entitlement

Regulations 2003, hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

Regulation 7 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) for sub-regulation (1) thereof there shall be

substituted the following

“(1) An employer who receives notice for

parental leave as prescribed in regulation 6, may

temporarily postpone the granting of parental leave for

justifiable reasons related to the operation of the place of

work.”; and

(b) for paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (2) thereof,

there shall be substituted the following

“(d) where the place of business is a small

enterprise employing not more than ten people,

provided that the employer consults with the employee

in order to establish alternative dates when such leave

may be availed of, in such a way to avoid indefinite

postponement of the requested parental leave;”.

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