Urgent Family Leave (Amendment) Regulations, 2025

L.N. 28 of 2025

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Urgent Family Leave (Amendment) Regulations, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 10 of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister responsible for

employment and industrial relations after consultation with the

Employment Relations Board, has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Urgent Family

commencement.

Leave (Amendment) Regulations, 2025 and these regulations shall be

read and construed as one with the Urgent Family Leave Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall come into force within two (2)

months from their publication in the Gazette.

Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 6 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following new sub-regulation

"(1) The employee shall have the right to be provided

with a minimum of thirty-two (32) hours with pay per year by

the principal as time off from work for urgent family reasons as

specified in these regulations

Provided that the first sixteen (16) hours availed of by

the employee for urgent family reasons shall be deducted from

the annual leave entitlement of the employee. Whilst the

remaining sixteen (16) hours availed of shall be deducted from

the annual sick leave entitlement of the employee, subject to the

availability of the respective balances of the employee.".

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