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3.14 PARENTAL LEAVE
The Company offers 22 weeks from 1 September, 2019 (Changing to 26 weeks from 1 September, 2020) unpaid
Parental Leave for the purposes of caring for each qualifying child. In general, you will have the right to
parental leave if you have one year's continuous employment and:
• You are the natural or adoptive parent of a child who will be under the age of twelve at the
end of the period of Parental Leave; or
• You are the parent of a child with a disability who will be under the age of sixteen at the end
of the period of Parental Leave; or
• You have adopted a child who was aged between six years and eight years at the date of the
adoption order and the period of Parental Leave will end less than two years after the date of
the order.

The employee may take their leave in one continuous period or in two separate blocks of a minimum of six
weeks each. However parental leave may not be broken up;

*unless the Company agrees to allow you "Broken Leave" (blocks of leave broken into individual days or weeks
or taken in the form of reduced hours at work**).

**Broken Parental Leave If the Company agrees to grant same shall be calculated as follows: -
(a) Your initial entitlement will be the equivalent of the total number of hours worked by you in the 14 weeks
period ending immediately before the week in which you propose to commence your first period of leave.
(b) On the second and subsequent occasions that you take your leave your entitlement will be the equivalent of
the hours worked during the 14 weeks period ending immediately before you take that period of leave averaged
with any previous 14-week periods ending immediately prior to any leave previously taken less the total number
of hours leave already taken.

Procedure
3.14.1 Notification
• You must give at least six weeks written notice prior to taking the Parental Leave.
• The notice must include the following details: -
• The date on which you intend to commence the leave.
• The duration of the leave.
• The manner in which you propose to take the leave.
• The notice must be signed by you.
• You may revoke the notification at any time before the signing by both you and the Company
of a Confirmation document (see below).
3.14.2 Confirmation
No later than 4 weeks before the leave is due to begin the Company will agree with you the details of the leave
and execute a confirmation document signed by both you and the Company specifying:
• The date on which the leave will commence
• The duration of the leave
• The manner in which the leave will be taken
• Signed by both the Company and you.
• Once the confirmation document has been signed both by the Company and by you, it cannot
be altered without the agreement of both parties.

If you will not have completed one year’s continuous employment with the Company on the last day that you
would otherwise be entitled to Parental Leave, and you have completed 3 months continuous employment on
the latest day that you would otherwise be entitled to commence Parental Leave then you are entitled to one
weeks leave for every complete month of continuous employment with the Company.

3.14.3 More than one qualifying child
If you have more than one qualifying child, you may not take more than 18 weeks Parental Leave in any 12-
month period, unless the Company agrees otherwise. This restriction does not apply in the case of multiple
births including twins.

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