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• Confirm to the Company that you require the force majeure leave
• Failure to properly inform Management could lead to disciplinary action under the
Company's disciplinary procedure for absence without leave or taking leave when not
entitled.

3.14.2 Terms and Conditions of Employment
Your contract of employment will continue during parental leave in its entirety and during your
absence on Force Majeure Leave you shall be regarded as being in continuous employment. Any Force
Majeure leave will be paid.
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 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
3.15.1 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
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