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Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 (enacted 24 October 2019)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and general  (ss. 1-4)1. Short title and commencement2. Interpretation3. Voidance or modification of certain provisions in agreements4. ExpensesPart 2 Parent’s leave (ss. 5-16)5. Entitlement to parent’s leave6. Notification to employer7. Allocation of parent’s leave8. Commencement of parent’s leave where relevant parent entitled to maternity leave9. Commencement of parent’s leave where relevant parent entitled to adoptive leave under section 6(1) of Act of 199510. Commencement of parent’s leave for a relevant parent entitled to paternity leave11. Commencement of parent’s leave (early confinement)12. Commencement of parent’s leave (change in day of placement or date of confinement)13. Postponement of parent’s leave by employer14. Postponement of parent’s leave in event of hospitalisation of child15. Entitlement to parent’s leave on death of child16. Entitlement of employed surviving parent to leave on death of relevant parentPart 3 Employment protection (ss. 17-22)17. Interpretation (Part 3)18. Preservation or suspension of rights while on parent’s leave19. Protection of employees from penalisation20. General right to return to work on expiration of parent’s leave21. Postponement of return to work22. Provisions applying where employee not permitted to return to workPart 4 Resolution of disputes (ss. 23-25)23. Disputes regarding entitlements under Act24. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 201525. Burden of proofPart 5 Parent’s benefit (ss. 26-32)26. Amendment of section 21 of Act of 200527. Amendment of section 39 of Act of 200528. Amendment of section 58 of Act of 200529. Parent’s benefit30. Amendment of section 238B of Act of 200531. Amendment of section 241 of Act of 200532. Amendment of section 248 of Act of 2005Part 6 Miscellaneous (ss. 33-38)33. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Redundancy Payments Act 196734. Amendment of section 6 of Act of 197735. Amendment of Act of 199436. Amendment of Act of 199537. Amendment of section 126 of Taxes Consolidation Act 199738. Amendment of Act of 2015
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Version status: Published
Version date: 3 October 2019 - onwards

8. Commencement of parent’s leave where relevant parent entitled to maternity leave

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 3 October 2019 by Seanad Éireann

(1) Subject to this section, where a relevant parent is entitled to parent’s leave, maternity leave and additional maternity leave, the day immediately following -

(a) other than where paragraph (b) applies, the end of the period of maternity leave concerned, or

(b) where the relevant parent is taking a period of additional maternity leave, the end of the period of additional maternity leave concerned,

is specified for the purposes of section 7(1).

(2) Where a relevant parent referred to in subsection (1) becomes entitled to transferred paternity leave and -

(a) the relevant parent is, other than where paragraph (b)(i) applies, taking transferred paternity leave, the day immediately following the end of the period of transferred paternity leave concerned, or

(b) where the relevant parent -

(i) is taking transferred paternity leave and additional maternity leave, or

(ii) is taking additional maternity leave and is not taking transferred paternity leave,

the day immediately following the end of the period of additional maternity leave concerned,

is specified for the purposes of section 7(1).

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