Section 80EG Employment Rights Act 1996

Section 80EG of the Employment Rights Act 1996 is about Rights during and after neonatal care leave. It provides as follows:

(1)Regulations under section 80EF must provide—

(a)that an employee who is absent on leave under that section is entitled, for such purposes and to such extent as the regulations may prescribe, to the benefit of the terms and conditions of employment which would have applied but for the absence,

(b)that an employee who is absent on leave under that section is bound, for such purposes and to such extent as the regulations may prescribe, by obligations arising under those terms and conditions (except in so far as they are inconsistent with subsection (1) of that section), and

(c)that an employee who is absent on leave under that section is entitled to return from leave to a job of a kind prescribed by regulations, subject to section 80EH.

(2)The reference in subsection (1)(c) to absence on leave under section 80EF includes, where appropriate, a reference to a continuous period of absence attributable partly to leave under that section and partly to any one or more of the following—

(a)maternity leave,

(b)paternity leave,

(c)adoption leave,

(d)shared parental leave,

(e)parental leave, and

(f)parental bereavement leave.

(3)In subsection (1)(a), “terms and conditions of employment”—

(a)includes matters connected with an employee’s employment whether or not they arise under the contract of employment, but

(b)does not include terms and conditions about remuneration.

(4)Regulations under section 80EF may specify matters which are, or are not, to be treated as remuneration for the purposes of this section.

(5)Regulations under section 80EF may make provision, in relation to the right to return mentioned in subsection (1)(c), about—

(a)seniority, pension rights and similar rights;

(b)terms and conditions of employment on return.

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