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3.13.2 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.

3.14 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 Company offers up to 18 continuous* weeks 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
3.14.1 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.

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