Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 (No. 35)

Version status: Partly in force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes

Published date: 24 October 2019

Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 (No. 35)

	Introductory Text
	Acts Referred to
	Part 1 Preliminary and General (ss. 1-4)
	1. Short title and commencement
	2. Interpretation
	3. Voidance or modification of certain provisions in agreements
	4. Expenses
	Part 2 Parent's Leave (ss. 5-16)
	5. Entitlement to parent's leave
	6. Notification to employer
	7. Allocation of parent's leave
	8. Commencement of parent's leave where relevant parent entitled to maternity leave
	9. Commencement of parent's leave where relevant parent entitled to adoptive leave under section 6(1) of Act of 1995
	10. Commencement of parent's leave for a relevant parent entitled to paternity leave
	11. 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 employer
	14. Postponement of parent's leave in event of hospitalisation of child
	15. Entitlement to parent's leave on death of child
	16. Entitlement of employed surviving parent to leave on death of relevant parent
	Part 3 Employment protection (ss. 17-22)
	17. Interpretation (Part 3)
	18. Preservation or suspension of rights while on parent's leave
	19. Protection of employees from penalisation
	20. General right to return to work on expiration of parent's leave
	21. Postponement of return to work
	22. Provisions applying where employee not permitted to return to work
	Part 4 Resolution of disputes (ss. 23-25)
	23. Disputes regarding entitlements under Act
	24. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 2015
	25. Burden of proof
	Part 5 Parent's benefit (ss. 26-32)
	26. Amendment of section 21 of Act of 2005
	27. Amendment of section 39 of Act of 2005
	28. Amendment of section 58 of Act of 2005
	29. Parent's benefit
	30. Amendment of section 238B of Act of 2005
	31. Amendment of section 241 of Act of 2005
	32. Amendment of section 248 of Act of 2005
	Part 6 Miscellaneous (ss. 33-38)
	33. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Redundancy Payments Act 1967
	34. Amendment of section 6 of Act of 1977
	35. Amendment of Act of 1994
	36. Amendment of Act of 1995
	37. Amendment of section 126 of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997
	38. Amendment of Act of 2015