Schedule 3 to the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 is amended -

(a) in paragraph 5, by the insertion of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (d):

and

"(e) any period during which an employee was absent from work while on paternity leave or transferred paternity leave under the Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016,",

(b) in paragraph 8A -

(i) by the insertion of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (b):

"(ba) a period during which, in accordance with the Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016, an employee was absent from work while on paternity leave or transferred paternity leave within the meaning of that Act,",

and

(ii) in subparagraph (c) by the substitution of "paragraphs (a), (b) or (ba)" for "paragraphs (a) or (b)".