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Version status: Amended
Version date: 7 December 2022 - onwards
Version 3 of 3

9. Amendment of section 14 of Principal Act

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 5 October 2022 by Dáil Éireann

Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended -

(a) in subsection (2), by the substitution of ", force majeure leave, leave for medical care purposes and domestic violence leave" for "and force majeure leave",

(b) in subsection (5), by the substitution of ", parental leave, leave for medical care purposes and domestic violence leave" for "and parental leave", and

(c) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (5):

"(6) Where -

(a) an employee who is on probation in his or her employment, is undergoing training in relation to that employment or is employed under a contract of apprenticeship, takes leave for medical care purposes or domestic violence leave, and

(b) his or her employer considers that the employee's absence from employment while on leave for medical care purposes or domestic violence leave would not be consistent with the continuance of the probation, training or apprenticeship,

the employer may require that the probation, training or apprenticeship be suspended during the period of the leave for medical care purposes or domestic violence leaveand be completed by the employee at the end of that period.

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