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To claim MB you must give a minimum of 6 weeks’ notice by completing Form MB1 (which must also
be stamped and completed by your employer and your Doctor not earlier than 16 weeks before your
child is due) and returning it to:

Maternity Benefit Section,
FREEPOST,
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection,
McCarter's Road,
Buncrana,
Donegal,
Ireland.

Note: It is advisable to complete and post (by registered post) the MB1 form at least 12 weeks before
your date of confinement to ensure you receive payment in a timely manner.

3.9.15 Contractual benefits
When you are absent on minimum maternity leave (i.e. the 26-week period) or extended maternity
leave (but not additional maternity leave or father's leave), providing you have given the required
notice as detailed above, you will be entitled to the following:
• You will continue to accrue holiday entitlement under the Organisation of Working Time
Act, 1997. Other contractual benefits except the right to remuneration will also be
continued.
• When you are absent on additional maternity leave or fathers leave your employment law
entitlements will cease (except as to reckonable service).
• During minimum maternity leave, extended leave, additional maternity leave and father's
leave, you are required to comply with all of the Company's terms and conditions of
employment and remain subject to the Company's rules, policies and procedures during
their absence.

3.9.16 Continuity of Employment
For both statutory and contractual purposes, continuity of employment is not broken by minimum,
extended or additional maternity leave or father's leave. This means that the full period of leave
counts for calculating continuous employment for statutory and contractual purposes except for
accrual of remuneration and holiday entitlement (see above).

Your contract of employment will continue during minimum, extended or additional maternity leave
or father's leave, although, of course, you will not be obliged to work nor, will the Company be obliged
to provide you with work. If for any reason you fail to return to work, or fail to give the appropriate
notification of your return to work, at the end of the relevant period of leave you will be treated as
having resigned from your employment and your employment and contract will come to an end as a
result of your resignation.

3.9.17 Health and Safety
In accordance with the Company's legal obligations the Company has carried out an assessment of the
risks to all pregnant employees, new mothers and breast-feeding mothers who work for the Company.

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