Schedule 3 to the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 is amended -

(a) in paragraph 5, by the insertion of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (e) (inserted by section 32(a) of the Act of 2016):

“(f) any period during which an employee was absent from work while on parent’s leave or transferred parent’s leave under the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019,”,

and

(b) in paragraph 8A -

(i) by the insertion of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (ba) (inserted by section 32(b)(i) of the Act of 2016):

“(bb) a period during which, in accordance with the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019, an employee was absent from work while on parent’s leave or transferred parent’s leave within the meaning of that Act,”,

and

(ii) in subparagraph (c), by the substitution of “(b), (ba) or (bb) ” for “(b) or (ba) ”.