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Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016 (No. 11 of 2016).

Country(ies)

Ireland

Subjects (Classification)

Maternity protection

Adopted on (Date of text)

2016-07-27

Scope of text

National

Type of legislation (Type of text)

Law, Act

Abstract/Citation

An Act to entitle certain employees who are relevant parents in relation to a child to employment leave for the purposes of enabling the employee to provide, or assist in the provision of, care to the child or to provide support to the relevant adopting parent or mother of the child, as the case may be, or both; to entitle a surviving parent to employment leave on the death of a relevant parent; to extend the protection against unfair dismissals conferred by the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977; to provide for the payment of paternity benefit to certain persons and, for that purpose, to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; and to provide for related matters.