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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
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The Company offers up to 22 (rising to 26 weeks from 1 September 2020) 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 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.

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 way you propose to take the leave.
• Confirmation of your child’s ‘date of birth.
• 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.

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