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3.15 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 eight 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
3.15.1 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).
3.15.2 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

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