Regulation 12 Application of terms and conditions during paternity leaveI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

An employee who takes paternity leave–

(a)

is entitled, during the period of leave, to the benefit of all of the terms and conditions of employment which would have applied if he had not been absent, and

(b)

is bound, during that period, by any obligations arising under those terms and conditions, subject only to the exception in Article 112C(1)(b) of the 1996 Order^f1.

(2)

In paragraph (1)(a), “terms and conditions of employment” has the meaning given by Article 112C(5) of the 1996 Order, and accordingly does not include terms and conditions about remuneration.

(3)

For the purposes of Article 112C of the 1996 Order, only sums payable to an employee by way of wages or salary are to be treated as remuneration.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 12 in operation at 8.12.2002, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: Article 112C was inserted by Article 4 of the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2))