Minimum Special Leave Entitlement

L.N. 144 of 2026

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Minimum Special Leave Entitlement

(Amendment) Regulations, 2026

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

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister responsible for

employment and industrial relations has made the following

regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Minimum Special

commencement.

Leave Entitlement (Amendment) Regulations, 2026 and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Minimum

Special Leave Entitlement Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the

"principal regulations".

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

months from their date of publication in the Gazette.

In regulation 3 of the principal regulations the words "Wage

Council Wage Regulation Order" shall be substituted by the words

"Conditions of Work Regulation Order".

Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 4 of the principal

regulations shall be amended as follows

(a)

paragraph (a) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new paragraph

"(a) three (3) working days of bereavement leave";

(b) paragraph (c) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new paragraph

"(c) three (3) working days of marriage leave";

(c) in paragraph (g) thereof the words "Wages Council

Wage Regulation Order", wherever they occur, shall be

substituted by the words "Conditions of Work Regulation Order".

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