Regulation 13 Amendments to the Principal Regulations

after paragraph (2)(e) insert—

“(ee)

failed to return after a period of ordinary or additional maternity leave in a case where—

(i)

the employer did not notify her, in accordance with regulation 7(6) and (7) or otherwise, of the date on which the period in question would end, and she reasonably believed that that period had not ended, or

(ii)

the employer gave her less than 28 days' notice of the date on which the period in question would end, and it was not reasonably practicable for her to return on that date;”;

in paragraph (3), after “section 71 of the 1996 Act” insert “and regulation 9”.