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New Unpaid Parental Leave Entitlement
The Parental Leave Acts allow parents to take parental leave from employment in respect of certain children. Under the Parental Leave Act 1998, parents of children up to 8 years old (or 16 years old where the child has a disability) are currently entitled to 18 weeks of unpaid parental leave provided they have one year’s service with their employer.
Upcoming Changes to Unpaid Parental Leave
A number of changes to parental leave are due to take place in 2019 and 2020. These include:
It is expected that the leave will be introduced on a phased basis with 4 weeks of additional parental leave available to take from September 2019, increasing by a further 4 weeks from September 2020. This will allow small businesses the time to prepare for the new regime.
Paid Parental leave Entitlement
The Government has only published the General Scheme for the Parental Leave and Benefit Bill 2019, and regulations will supplement this Act when passed. Under the General Scheme, it is proposed:
The length of the leave will be set by regulations, but the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection has announced it will commence at two weeks’ paid leave and shall increase incrementally up to seven weeks’ leave by 2021.