Minimum Special Leave Entitlement

L.N. 62 of 2020

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP 452)

Minimum Special Leave Entitlement

(Amendment) Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 48(2) of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister within the

Office of the Prime Minister as Minister responsible for employment

and industrial relations, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Minimum Special Leave Citation.

Entitlement (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Minimum Special Leave S.L. 452.101

Entitlement Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the "principal

regulations".

In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 1 of the principal Amends

regulations, the words "and leave for jury service" shall be substituted regulation

the principal

by the words "leave for jury service and quarantine leave".

regulations.

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 2 of the principal Amends

regulations, immediately after the definition "marriage leave" there regulation

the principal

shall be added the following new definition

regulations.

" "quarantine leave" means leave to be granted to the

employee without loss of wages in such cases where the

employee is legally obliged to abide by a quarantine order

confining the employee to a certain area or to certain premises as

determined by the Superintendent of Public Health under the

Public Health Act or by any public authority under any other Cap. 465.

law;".

Regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 4 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) in paragraph (e) of sub-regulation (1) thereof, the

words "as long as necessary:" shall be substituted by the words

"as long as necessary;";

(b) immediately after paragraph (e) thereof, there shall be

added the following new paragraph

"(f) quarantine leave for any period of quarantine as

may be determined by the Superintendent of Public Health

or by any other public authority:";

(c) in the proviso thereof, immediately after the words

"these specific leave entitlements" there shall be added the words

"with the exception of quarantine leave"; and

(d) in paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2) thereof, the words

"paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (e)" shall be substituted by the

words "paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (e) and (f)".

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