Section 46 — Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987: Failure to return to work

46 Failure to return to work If an employee who takes up parental leave and whose position is kept open by the employer— (a) Fails, without good cause, to return to work at the end of that period of parental leave; or (b) Informs the employer, before the end of that period of parental leave, that the employee has decided not to return to work at the end of the period of parental leave,— the employee's employment shall, subject to any agreement between the employer and the employee, be deemed to have been at an end as from the day on which the period of parental leave began. Compare: 1980 No 162 s 20